When your own children were just a baby, you can remember how they learned to hold onto things months before they learned to let them go. I suppose its the same with parents. You put so much of yourself into your children that it's almost too hard to just 'back away' as they grow up - though of course you have to - and this is one of those times... It's the senior formal dance next week, and Emily is expecting one of the seniors from the school to call by and ask her to be his date.