Cocktails on a Wednesday? Why? Because we can. We are Empty Nesters. When the kids were in school and we were driving willy nilly everywhere, we wouldn’t have dreamed (or maybe we did) of having cocktails on a Wednesday. Now that the house is empty and the kids are away, we can do as we …
If I really had to stop and think about it, life here at home “in the Empty Nest” is very different from when two busy kids were living here. Some of the changes are permanent and some of them just come and go. When the kids lived here we motored along at a fairly normal …
We made it safely through high school with our twins, Kat and Elena. Very minor bumps, as they were focused on school, grades, activities, college choices, and enough fun to still make it an overall extraordinarily positive experience. By December of their senior year they had early admission to college secured and so the last …
In the early days on the drive home from school with my twins, Kat and Elena, I avoided the inevitable monosyllabic “Fine” in response to “How was school today?” I’d cleverly ask, “Tell me one fun thing, one funny thing, and one thing you learned today.” That primed the conversation and Big Discussions were had. …
This post is written by first time Guest Adventurer, Jon L. – Our longtime friend who is a dad, husband, lawyer, author and all around great guy. You will enjoy this first post of a three part series. During the Golden Years when Kat and Elena breezed through ages 3 through 10, I couldn’t imagine …
This post is written by a first time Guest Adventurer, Karen B. and she has created a new category: Grand Empty Nester Our story is similar Suzanne. Joe started when Steve was 9 in Little League in Arcadia (back then that was the earliest you could play – no T Ball) and continued …
“There’s no cryin’ in baseball” – Tom Hanks’ character in A League of Their Own. Here we were, Empty Nesters, with a young puppy standing on the fields where our son had played baseball until high school. I was moved by the realization that we were now the spectators. I saw my devoted baseball husband standing …
Are you currently a member of a book club? Chances are most of you understand what a book club does and perhaps have been a member of one or two over the years. Recently, I was invited to my friend Barbara’s book club as a guest. Barbara came up with a creative idea and was …
It seemed appropriate to write about Seattle today,since the whole world watched them win the Super Bowl. SPOILER ALERT: THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT FOOTBALL 🙂 SO… if you are still interested in reading about Seattle, this is an empty nester story: Our daughter went to college at the University of Washington in Seattle and …
“I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator…I just love going to the movies.” -Daniel Day-Lewis Oscar season starts in the fall; usually sometime in November when the “really good films” start to hit the theaters. My husband, Jon, and I live for this time of year like some people live …
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