Another step in the process

After school today, Andrew is taking Catherine to where she is going to school to sign her housing contract.  This school does not have dorms, but they do have a managed apartment complex that is adjacent to the school.  She is doing this early to guarantee she can get the room she wants, which is the cheapest of the choices.  Honestly, it's pretty reasonably priced, especially considering it is furnished.  This is all really happening.  My sweet little girl is growing up and moving away.  The thing about this living arrangement is that because it isn't a dorm, because it is an apartment, they aren't "closed" during holidays and breaks.  So my sweet girl could move out next August, and never actually come back home.  It just seems so hard to believe.  Somehow, the worrying in these years of life seem nothing compared to the worrying of the next years!