Thank 'eaven for leetle girls!

The music to accompany this post can be found here. When Maurice Chevalier sang the song in Gigi he was about the age I am now!

"Leetle girls get bigger every day!" It was her very first school day in the photo on the left. And now she has a student room in Maastricht awaiting her arrival this afternoon, in a car full of her clothes and bargains bought yesterday at Ikea to furnish the life of a university freshman.

I love her eagerness to get started, her determination to make the very best of the opportunity that higher education offers, to seek challenges and meet them head-on.. 

Will I miss her in Munich, no longer entitled to hope that she will drop into one of the cafés I frequent for a spontaneous drink with Papi?

Let's not go there. Cue music once more!