<p>I miss the Saturday soccer (and will soon miss the basketball) games. He played and coached rec league, and I really miss those games. I’m going to start yoga on Saturday mornings.</p>
<p>Okay, since no one else is saying it–your personal life can be more, um, spontaneous…</p>
<p>I hear you, WWMOM. </p>
<p>(another mom of an only)</p>
<p>No more checking his bathroom, bedroom and the computer room upstairs for dirty dishes before running the dishwasher.
Knowing there will be enough milk for breakfast when there was enough at midnight.
No emptying the dryer when I need it days later.
Mowing the lawn.
Eating what, and when, we feel like it.
Lower energy and water bills.
Garland said it.
No closing doors when home alone- any arrival is spouse.
Finding library books, magazines where you left them.
Stove and counter remain clean.</p>
<p>Notice how all of the above relate to things, not relationships? When sons return from college for the summer they don’t suddenly involve themselves in their parents’ lives, except for a place to stay in between semesters.</p>
<p>Hubba, hubba garland. </p>
<p>My hotel expenses have dropped dramatically. Not joking.</p>
<p>I walk around the house naked like I did in my twenties. Free at last!</p>
<p>I can teach a lesson (piano) at 11:00 AM without worrying that someone will come staggering down the stairs in his boxers scratching his behind.</p>
<p>I can fix healthy meals and no one complains “ew, what’s this crap?”</p>
<p>I don’t wake up in the morning and enter my family room and wonder “what little brownies have been having a party in here last night?”</p>
<p>The laundry basket doesn’t smell like a fermentation vat anymore.</p>
<p>I haven’t done laundry in 3 days! Maybe I’ll do a load tomorrow…</p>
<p>Ok… student, not parent here, but I realized that I will barely be home at all this semester.</p>
<p>Note: Living “at home” with parents.</p>
<p>Sunday: Probably work or hang with friends.
Monday: Class from 2-9, probably won’t wake up before parents leave.
Tuesday: Work morning. Starting December, work night too, probably.
Wednesday: See Monday.
Thursday: See Tuesday.
Friday: Photos at football game, probably work morning.
Saturday: Whatever.</p>
<p>My husband and I can dance together without locking the bedroom door first…</p>
<p>The cat sleeps on my pillow instead of my son’s.</p>
<p>We have milk left on Monday mornings.</p>
<p>No one puts the clean dishes away for me.</p>
<p>I found myself both washing and drying the dishes</p>
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<p>You mean somebody else besides me is allowed to put the clean dishes away???</p>