"So what do you do with an empty nest?"
We just recently refinanced it, and, as I speak, my H is remodeling the deck. I just picked a bucketful of wild strawberries (if one could call the groundcover in my backyard "wild"), and I'm about to start making very fragrant strawberry jam. My garden is doing fantastically this year thanks to the unusually warm June. I wish I'd planted more tomatoes! So we are not moping around the nest feeling all sad and depressed, but we do miss our babies. It did get better.
Just a few days ago, I saw this Oprah.com article on the web:
Sex and other perks of empty nesting - CNN.com Quote:
"At first simply driving past a soccer game would make me weepy," says the 54-year-old mother of two from Philadelphia, who officially became an empty nester in August 2007. "But by December, I remember thinking, "I've adjusted."
Suddenly she and her husband were going on impromptu dates and getting together with friends. And Shure, a family therapist, threw herself into editing a clinical treatment book -- something she would never have time for if the girls were still home.
"I absolutely miss my kids," she says, "but I'm enjoying a really full life now."
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^^This pretty much described my feelings.