So here's a tidbit or two about things leading up to the creation of my new online journal. For the last seven years I had been pretty involved in volunteer activities at the high school my boys attended. First with different fund raising events and stuff for Band and the last three with the Athletic department - managing the concessions. I would never have been able to do any of it without the help and support of my husband, who was just as involved. (I needed a "grillmaster") LOL.
So with any good volunteer...you begin to suffer from burnout...and sometimes the only way out is to go cold turkey and resign (which I did - about four months after he did). That was six months before the youngest graduated. Then we got busy with planning a grad party, prepping stuff for the youngest to go to college, remodeling the breezeway between the house and the garage and so on.
Then the oldest son decided at age 21 it was time to be on his own. This is a very good thing and as a parent we always hope that we've done a good job teaching them responsibility and how to manage on their own and it's very surprising when it turns out that you may have actually done a good job. So, the day after the youngest son's grad party...we were helping the oldest move out.
Then low and behold...less than two months later the day came to move the youngest to college. It's an exciting time for them as young adults, but I must say...no one ever says anything about the "Empty Nest" except that's its a fun and exiciting time.
Really? Seriously? So on any given day (except for the last nine Saturday's and Monday's) it's 6:30 in the evening, dinner is cooked, eaten and the dishes are done and I spent all day yesterday cleaning the house.
What in the heck do we do with all this free time?
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