That awkward moment when...

You realize you are not as important to your kids as you used to be. (Their stupid friends have taken your rightful place.)Now intellectually, I have known this for a long time. But emotionally, I guess I have been fooling myself. (Oh also, I don't think her friends are stupid. I am irrationally jealous of them.) You know what's to blame for my inability to continue fooling myself? Facebook. My daughter wasn't enjoying being back home as much as I was enjoying having her there. She decides to move to VA Beach to stay with my parents and work until she can afford her own place or the apartment over their garage (that she lived in with us as a baby) opens up. Great! New people, new experiences, THE BEACH! My parents could not be more thrilled. Before she moves, she posts "I'n gonna miss you more than taking the long way home to finish a singing a song we like." I immediately burst into tears at my desk when I read it. Then I scroll down her page a bit and see I am one of like 10 people that got a comment about how much she would miss us. So I was able to quit crying. Last night we are skyping and as we are about to hang up, we both tear up a little. I cry after the camera is off and she can't see me. Later she posts "If I could take medicine for being home sick, I'd be doped up right now." I answer back this morning " I don't "like" that you're homesick. That's not a fun feeling. But I like that you aren't thinking "whatever, I don't miss home at all". Would make me feel like we were bad parents if you didn't miss us or where you were raised at all. lol." And truthfully, I feel a little glad that she misses me because I miss her like I would miss air if I were underwater. She answers "you're silly". Her best friend's boyfriend puts a frowny face and she says " Dooster! Can't you just load up you, Savana and Dalton and come see me!" It's not about me at all. She's homesick for them. And everyone on facebook knows it. Everyone my age and older is thinking... oh bless Jessi's heart. Everyone her age is thinking, "why is her mom so creepy, like that was about her". Oh and she misses her dog. She tears up every time I pick him up while we skype. I apologize to my mom every time my daughter hits another milestone that leaves me behind a little, leaves me a little less important~ because I did the exact same thing to her. Apparently, it is the "natural way of things". I hate it. I really, really hate it.