Not quite an empty nest, but it feels like it, and they've only been gone for five minutes!
The big one left on Monday night, off to the salt mines now that she's staff. The others are joining her today, and after the frenzy of gathering and packing and sending one to camp for the first time, I feel like a balloon that's deflating. (I guess that's better than popping).
I'm left with mixed feelings. I am very excited for them for this opportunity to meet new people and just get out of their usual routines. I'm excited for the kids left behind that they can also get out of their usual routines as all the dynamics in the house will shift. I'm excited for the relative quiet, but go back and forth between feeling guilty that I'm excited about it, and not feeling guilty because I sent them off to have a great time.
I hope they do.
4 comments:
lose the guilt! this is win win win all around. You enjoy the smaller nest, the little ones enjoy the extra attention and the big ones have a great time. Why should you feel anything but great about the whole situation?
I am already feeling that since the summer is started it (as always) will go too fast and be over before we blink!
You are too tormented. Enjoy the peace and quiet, enjoy their opportunity to have new experiences, relax.
Guilt is too overrated as a way of life.
guilt. jewish AIDS. a real disease. get over it.
speaking of guilt, the bad feeling it gives you atones for the sin so that you can continue to sin. Either stop doing whatever gives you guilt, or say, the hell with it, there is nothing wrong with what I am doing.
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