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08-28-2011, 10:38 AM
#23
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Beaver PA USA
Posts: 1,656
Congrats, but don't hold your breath!! We had an empty nest when our baby left for college, but within a very short while, the older daughter moved back home, and has been here for 5 years now! It's ok, though. She says she's getting married next spring, and will move then!! :thumbup:
08-28-2011, 11:17 AM
#24
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 3,955
Originally Posted by megs0863
Just sent my last one off too this weekend. The last of the three. Went grocery shopping last night and PUT THE OREOS back on the shelf! Will miss him dearly, but not the laundry, dishes, and extra housework. Now, I can't wait till they are all financially on their own, then I will smile.
08-28-2011, 12:00 PM
#25
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: New York
Posts: 470
Yes, I could have the whole pkg of oreos to myself but with all this free time, the oreos wouldn't stand a chance. And so I bought some cookies that I really don't like..just in case company comes (lol). The goal here is to quilt more, not scoff cookies more. I'm hoping my diet will improve from this point in the new empty nest .
08-28-2011, 02:04 PM
#26
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Ohio, just east of Toledo
Posts: 1,369
One would think I'd be at the empty nest stage, now that the youngest in on the USS Ronald Reagan.
But, I've told the 2 kids still living here, stay as long as you want, leave whenever you want. They follow our few rules, the house is big and they have the upper front half, and I remember how it was when I got out of college. They pay us monthly for use of the kitchen and laundry room, and like I said, they follow our few rules.
But, I've told the 2 kids still living here, stay as long as you want, leave whenever you want. They follow our few rules, the house is big and they have the upper front half, and I remember how it was when I got out of college. They pay us monthly for use of the kitchen and laundry room, and like I said, they follow our few rules.
08-28-2011, 02:24 PM
#27
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Batesville, Arkansas
Posts: 852
Lucky you! 10 years to after we left our last child at school and became empty-nesters, we left our grandson at college and became empty-nesters again. We got custody of him 3 years after his aunt left home. Now we are both retired and empty-nesters again! It is great! Just hoping he stays in school and doesn't end up coming back. I talked with him today and he said that he loved college as much as he hate high school. That is wonderful, because he really, really, really hated high school!
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