Ok, so I’ve tried to blog different times. I tried Blogspot but it was too complicated to try to change things. I love to write, but I’m a totally right brain person so why is blogging so set up for left brain geeky, techie types?? I need the discipline of writing every day, and I don’t know why I think so, but it would be nice to have people actually read my blog. Although maybe not, because if no one’s reading then it doesn’t matter what I write.
This weekend my kids will both leave for college on the other side of the country. My daughter went in the Fall, but my son will start this semester. It’s weird to think about being an “empty nester.” Sometimes I think how nice it will be to clean something and have it stay that way, to have a quiet house and listen to the music I want, or watch the shows I want, when I want! But I know I will miss my kids and their friends coming over, walking in the door and heading to the fridge. I haven’t had to worry about chips, candy or soda being around the house because it’s gone in a day.
It won’t be so different to have my son gone since he hangs out in the basement playing video games and only comes upstairs for food. It felt like more of a void when my daughter left. We walked together and she would talk to me about her life and friends. My son…not so much! Our conversations consist of my questions and his grunts. I hold out hope that he’ll learn to communicate in complete sentences in college!
And what about my husband and I? We aren’t the kind who have wrapped up our entire lives in our kids and their lives. We both have pretty full lives, mostly with work though. Our relationship has gone through a rocky time the last 5 years or so…so we’ll see if the kids being gone brings us closer or if we continue on our separate trajectories.
