Count Your Blessings – An Empty Nester’s unexpected health journey

Since creating Adventures of Empty Nesters, I have had the very good fortune of connecting with some extraordinary and talented people. They all possess huge hearts, inquisitive minds and adventurous spirits. I met the author of this post, Tam, through her fantastic travel blog, Travels with Tam. Her “adventures” and travels are out of this world! …

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The Sound of Silence in the Empty Nest

It sometimes may seem like life is full of fun and games in the Empty Nest and for a good majority of time it can be. However, in between the cocktails, weekend trips and the overall freedom, there is silence.When the kids go off to school the dynamics in the household obviously change, but the …

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Cocktails on a Wednesday?

Cocktails

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 …

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There’s No Cryin’ in Baseball

“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 …

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30 Years of Marriage and Still Smiling

This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, CLICK HERE!  Recently I discovered a special website called The Happy Wives Club. I loved the positive message Fawn Weaver is sending out to …

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