Originally Posted by
Biker395
Very stylin'.
I can relate to the emtpy nest thing.
We usually have 5-10 kids over on any particular Friday night, twanging guitars and pounding on drums, playing video games, and munching on Dominoes $5.99 medium pizzas (one for each kid).
After the miscreant heads off to college, we'll have this:
<crickets chirping>
On the bright side, that means we're free to spend as much time as we want up in the Sierra.
We had similar circumstances, however there were 5-10 college grads (my son had been waiting to get his report date since May 2012). While they didn't have a garage band and we didn't buy them pizza, but they spent many a night in my backyard around a fire pit tippin' brewskies with periodical raids of my fridge.
The empty nest syndrome has hit me hard with this one going so far and becoming property of the US Gov. for at least 8 years. My other son currently lives in NYC, about, 1-1/2 hours from me, and my daughter, a few towns over.
It was so bad, I did some on-line research to determine the difference between normal feelings of sorrow at being left by my children and, um, psychosis. I discovered that what I am experiencing is natural and will subside, so, you know, I've got
that going for me.
My husband and I have already started our recovery by:
1) committing to attend the 50+ meetup in
BOSTON, JULY 27 & 28
2) reducing our grocery bill by 33%
3) prancing around the house in our underwear