We would have been empty nesters a long time ago, but our 2nd child is handicapped and is still with us at age 43...
It's amazing that when you get that kind of diagnosis that it seems to be the end of the world.... but you muddle through the years and then....
it seems impossible but one day you realize what a BLESSING it has been...
she helps her dad (67 and a cardiac patient) out in the yard and shop, she helps me (fibro and diabetic)....
(and yes, we have made 'arrangements' for when we are gone)..
so we will never be empty around here LOL