I’ve said plenty it of times before and I’ll say it again and again. I love my girls.

They are smart, funny, confident, exasperating, tenacious, enthusiastic, caring, impatient, energetic, crazy…and they’re all mine.

I have a colleague at work whose daughter is a senior in high school and awaiting her college acceptance letters. As we were talking about it the other day, I had a flashback to that time in my life.

I distinctly remember being at my grandparents’ place in Florida and listening to my father on the phone with Tufts University trying to negotiate a better aid package.

And to think that we’re now only seven years away from this with Chloe. Hard to believe.

Thankfully, I have 11 more years to go with Sophie before that milestone. She’s snuggled up against me now and I just want to stop the clock.