Saturday, August 25, 2012

We are officially empty nesters

Yesterday afternoon, we helped move Kiddo #2 into his dorm room. Although he's going to the university here in town, we wanted him to experience being on his own - hence the dorm room. Theoretically, he'd packed everything, but the more we unpacked the more we discovered he was missing. We have quite a lengthy list of things to bring him in the next few days, but we're holding off and trying to avoid the mad rush that is move-in weekend.  After that, for the most part, we won't see Kiddo #2 until his birthday in October, and then again for Thanksgiving. Unless, of course, he needs to do laundry or wants a home-cooked meal or something. ;)

With Kiddo #1 at college somewhere Far, Far Away, that leaves us home. Alone. With just the dogs, cats, horses, and chickens for company. Which is actually quite a lot of company.

We considered what to do to celebrate, even though it was pretty sad to leave Kiddo #2 at the dorm. We thought about going out to eat at some nice restaurant, but remembered that we are paying for 2 kids in college, so a nice dinner was probably out. We opted for pulling a couple of steaks out of the freezer and having a bottle of wine from the wine rack.

We did, however choose to eat dinner nekkid on the couch. Just because we could.

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  1. Eating dinner nekked on the couch... that is the reason I don't ever want to have kids. I want to be able to do that FOR LIFE.

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    1. Andrea, having kids is an amazing thing. It's also the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. I'm glad to have been able to do it and I really hope we have given the kiddos a good start. They are awesome people in their own right.

      However, I have to say that the couch thing is kinda nice... ;)

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