All Blog Posts Tagged 'empty' (3)

If I had become a mother right out of high school, I’d be sitting bleary-eyed in an empty nest wondering what I’d do with my time now that the kids are off at college. But I didn’t. I had my first child at 37, and now – nearing 40 – I find myself sitting bleary-eyed behind the wheel of our Volvo S80 looking at an empty car seat in the rear-view mirror. I can’t hold back the tears. As I drive past the cranes doing highway construction on the Capital Beltway, I have to stop myself from pointing t… Continue

What is a mom suppose to do after dedicating all her time and energy to her family? Is the empty-nest looming in your near future? Are you ready to be yourself again? I've started to ask myself these questions lately, and found a little help answering them in Maria Shri… Continue

Hi, I'm a new member. I just wanted to express my feelings about the Empty Nest Syndrome. I have three children. Two of them have ventured out on their own, more or less. But, my youngest son, age 25, is a career student. Now, I mean that in a good way, I think. He has been going to a local university for the past seven years. He's a math major, who once expected to teach, but has since changed his mind. He works part-time, and he belongs to an offshoot of the Math Department called the Math Cor… Continue