shawbridge

We're not there yet but we feel like we're on the way. ShawbridgeSon heads off to college in the fall, but he was on a gap year this year and while living at home was pretty independent. ShawbridgeDaughter is a rising junior at a private school where half the kids board and she often eats breakfast and dinner there (included in our tuition) and spends weekends in the houses in nice places owned by her friends' parents. ShawbridgeDaughter is spending the next 5 weeks in another city working in her uncle's biology lab and ShawbridgeSon is going to spend much of July traveling with friends. So, we feel like we're partway there.

For my partially empty-nest project, I'm starting a book (rough outline done) and am going to do a little writing retreat for part of next week. This is a more popular book than I've written before so it will have to be be shorter and catchier. I've got some learning to do.

I'd love to say that we'll travel more when the nest is fully empty, but I travel a lot as it is. What may differ is that my wife can join me sometimes when I head to nice places if she has time in her schedule.