Lately, when I run into friends, they ask me (with a bit of caution), “So, how is the empty nesting going?” I thought my answer would be, “It’s so very sad. I sob every time I hear Miley Cirus singing Butterfly Fly Away.” I had imagined that our lives without our precious children all around might look something like this:
Since we began our new empty nesting phase, these are the new sentences we have actually found popping into our conversations:
“On a Monday?”
“Yep.”
“Let’s go to a movie.”
“Now?”
“Yep.”
“Let’s call it a night.”
“But, it’s only 10.”
“Yep.”
So, it actually looks more like this around our empty nest:
Earlier this week, our last little gal, who is now in college, (the one who made the nest officially empty) sent us a link to this video in an email that read, “Here are you and Dad as empty nesters.” Well, most of you have probably seen this video, as I read that it has been viewed by 7.3 million viewers, so far. But I just have to share it again, because this adorable couple will bring a smile to your day. If this is where empty nesting takes you, then we are very excited to be on our way!
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Can you get an award for this posting? Very dear.
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You are the dear one. Hug on your last little bird … although, as you can see, we are finding that there are some silver linings to the empty nest cloud!
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:) Love this! I think you should do a series – “the empty nesters”…
