I think I have empty nest syndrome

There are definate advantages to the kids being gone. One of the things I'm having to learn how to do over again is to cook for two. We find ourselves eating leftovers for days because I'm still used to cooking for 5, including my 21 year old son who eats like he has two hollow legs!

hi pickwick/carpenter, a few weeks back the piegons in my window have hatched 2 lovely eggs and ocne the chiks grew up thtey were abondned by the parents and have now laid another pair of eggs. The same is bound to happen to new chicks as well. this is life by nature and we cannot tide agaisnt the nature. The beuty lies in understanding life and living with it.

Hi Fancyking. That is the sweetest analogy I've heard to date about the empty nest. Thank you so much for sharing it. Our youngest has moved back home for the summer and once again our home is a flurry of activity. It seems that there are always kids here and even the young man who is 23 and lives in the apartment next door to us has started hanging out here. His parents live 2 hours away, and he's kind of adopted us.