As move in date rapidly approaches, I think I become more and more sentimental on my hometown even though I'm still here. I spent the last 7 years in a small suburb of Austin, TX. I know every in and out of this town. I know all my neighbors and friends. And I know no matter where I go I'll be able to find someone I know. Moving away from this is frightening, going from knowing every part of your little town, to not knowing anything or anyone around you.

As I'm packing up my things, it hits me that I won't have my mom to go to when I'm in a hurry to iron my clothes. I won't be able to jump in the car and run some errands around with her. I won't even be able to join her on the couch to watch a movie. The closest thing I'll have to any of these things is FaceTime, but that will never compare to the real thing. Its always the little things that are the hardest to leave behind. Going up to the neighborhood HEB to grab something sweet, or venturing 20 minutes up the road into Austin to go down SoCo, picking up Whataburger no matter if it's 3am or 3pm, or even just going across town to my boyfriends house and hanging out with his family too. These are all the small things that I have started to realize I'll miss the most.

I've always wanted to get up and move away, during the college searching process I never wanted to stay in Texas. I believe that this is the best time in your life to just pack everything up and move to wherever you want. You have no other responsibility and nothing tying you down and stopping you. When I first picked LSU I decided that it gave me the independence that I craved. It allowed me to pack everything up and leave home, but it also wasn't across the country so that when I did want to come home it wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg. Being on my own isn't the terrifying thought I have about moving away. I know I can handle myself, but it's being on my own when I get sick or being on my own when I'm super stressed out about a test or even just being on my own when I want to have a movie night with my mom. those are the situations that's I'm worried about because I have no one to replace the things my mom does.