“The first few weeks when they both went to college—two different colleges—they were on FaceTime, all three of us, crying every night for at least a week or two,” Kate said in an Aug. 15 TikTok. “After that, they slowly found friends and I didn’t hear from them as much, which scared me. I wanted to know that they were safe, I wanted to know that they were OK.”
The matriarch had her own difficulties, too, noting, “I unhealthily pretended for the first three months that they were just upstairs sleeping. I couldn’t accept the fact that they had left, they were gone and I wasn’t gonna see them until the holidays.”
Nowadays, however, she embraces the fact that her kids are living their independent lives.
“They all live in different places or go to different colleges, so I get to listen to them catching up and be a part of that,” Kate explained. “We cook big meals together. It’s really loud here, and I love it.”
Read on to look back at Jon and Kate’s kids through the years.