Category "Empty Nesting"

I don’t know about you, but I love the week between Christmas & New Year’s Day!  These are the best days; the preparation and work for Christmas and all the celebrations are complete; I don’t really care what the house looks like, cleaning is unimportant; there’s still plenty of food in the fridge (SO.MUCH.FOOD), therefore, cooking is optional; I’m not a post-Christmas sale shopper and avoid the crowds.  This is a perfect time for enjoying time together, sleeping in, playing family games and just hanging out!  When any of my kids are home, I just want to put all mundane things aside and spend time with them, because I know that time is fleeting and soon, they will be gone and I can get back to the task of day to day life. And, that’s exactly what we did until the weekend when all 4 of my children had other plans!  What is this madness?  My two daughters went out of town for my oldest daughters Bachelorette Weekend, my oldest son and his wife had to go out of town unexpectedly, so my youngest son stayed at their house to dog sit.  Mark and I had the weekend and the house to ourselves.  This was going to be a great test run for when we are legitimate empty nesters and my youngest leaves for college in August!