We’d been on the road for a few hours after dropping our son off at Morehouse. The ebb and flow of traffic symbolized the start of our new life as EmptyNesters. Our air was getting thick and thin as our GPS kept re-routing us to get through the traffic and we were getting impatient or was it that we were feeling the anxiety of our new life.
Our son took longer than we had hoped in getting a summer job before heading off to college, but landed a job at the local Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins in our neighborhood. Our GPS re-routed us one last time and we decided to heed the call of Mother Nature, gas up, and get a snack for the remainder of our drive home. It just happened that the gas station shared a parking lot with a Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins. As we got back in our car, the phrase EmptyNest Chronicles flooded my mind and after getting my husband’s “go for it…,” here we are.
I must admit, this new life fills me with uncertainty. I knew who we were as a couple before we got married more than a quarter century ago. I knew who we were as a couple raising our children. But what I didn’t know was what we would be as a couple without our children. We certainly were not going to be that couple we were before children and what it meant to be EmptyNesters made me nervous.
My hope for this blog is to share this new life with all of you as we all walk through the #EmptyNestChronicles life together. I welcome your insights, encouragements, questions, and trepidations. This is judgment-free zone. So go ahead…share what’s on your mind…I’ll be doing the same.
All the best,
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