The Empty Nest…Again

January 13, 2009, 1:59 am
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I came home to an empty house for the first time in a weeks today. It’s eerily quiet. The holidays are over, we’re back to work, and Kristi left this morning to head back to Texas to do her student teaching – the final phase of her preparations to become a teacher. Butch is coaching a basketball game. Everyone else is busy: Mom is on a plane headed for Arkansas to visit a family friend. Tiff, Jeremy and Logan are at the gym working out and swimming. Once I completed two rehearsals after school, I came home, cleaned a closet, cleaned out a cabinet, ate some supper, and now I’m trying to decide if I should keep cleaning or relax. It’s a difficult choice, but since tomorrow night will be another quiet night, I think I’ll just sit back, rest, and save the rest of the cleaning for tomorrow and the next day. It’ll wait, right? I was invited to join Tiff, Jeremy and Logan at the gym and I considered going, but as a former beloved youth pastor from our church so uniquely put it: I sat down until the feeling passed!

I’m not sure as yet how I feel about the empty nest. There are days when I enjoy the quiet, but it gets too quiet at times. When Butch and I married, we immediately had a family of four teenagers. Now is kind of like our honeymoon, after 12 1/2 years of marriage. It still gets quiet! I guess I’ll just have to borrow a grandchild to fill the silence and liven things up around here! Now….there’s a thought!!!