It's been three months since we moved our daughter to college.
There is still a lot of adjusting going on in our little house.
We did take our first weekend get away vacation out of the state.
We went to Newport Beach in California. It is the first vacation
we have taken that did not include visiting some place we used to live.
We did take our daughter with us, but it was a treat for all of us.
We have a new joke with the kids being little "birds" out of the nest.
Our daughter "Chick" may have left the nest but comes back often because
the worms at home are much tastier than at school. Just when I get used to her
being away she comes home for a visit. We see her pretty much every week.
I'm the sounding board for all her stress and issues in life and I think my hair is getting grey.
I think this college child is stressing me out! I had a good friend tell me that the 18 year old
brain is not totally developed yet and be prepared for them to do things that make no sense.
So far we have all survived these moments, and I think she has learned some good lessons.
She is doing really good in college, getting great grades and becoming more independent.
She has big dreams and I hope she gets to do them all.
Our Boy "Chick", well he flew south of the boarder and has yet to come home.
If the count down clock is right he has 173 days left of his mission.
He sound good in his e-mails. He has told me a few things he wants to do when he comes home.
He wants to go to the doctor to make sure he doesn't have parasites. He is like me
a bit of a hypochondriac. He wants to get back to work so he has money for college.
He wants to go to the grocery store I work at so he can see all the American food.
He wants to have a Mexican dinner night where he makes us Mexican food. I can't wait!
My husband keeps busy with work and working on old cars with his friends.
These are two of his friends and one of the cars they are working on. One of my husbands
very good friends it dying of cancer. It is heart breaking. He and his friends have been helping
this friend finish this car. We all just pray it is done so he can drive it before his battle with
cancer is over. We just don't know how much longer he has.
We continue to do weekly day dates. Last week we took a drive through the Butter field Canyon.
Thanks to my phone GPS. It was a beautiful fall day, with great surprises.
My husband was good and stopped the car often so I could take a photos. I have a blog post in the works about this trip. My husband has said that he loves our day dates. I think it has helped him learn to relax, to not always be working and he just seems happier than he has been in a long time. It has
also helped us to build a stronger relationship.
I just finished reading this book. Susanna Kearsley has to be my most
favorite author! Most of her books have some type of family history theme to them, and
for some strange reason I can connect a lot of my family history to the books she writes.
Which I just find cool. This book takes place in the United State near the time of the
French and Indian war. It talks about how settlers went back and forth between
New England and Canada. Many of my ancestors did this. So it was cool to
learn more about this time period. It also helped me to get back into doing my family history, I've
taken a lot of months off.
There was a night at some point where my husband and I sat and looked at old photos.
It was just so sweet to remember all the fun little kid years. One thing I did when my kids were little was print out one Halloween photo every year and buy a Halloween themed frame and put them in it.
I looked forward to decorating for Halloween because my decorations this year
was all the photo's of my children throughout the years.
So if you have young children this might be something you might want to do.
I also had a fall themed puzzle made through Shutterfly. I'm still putting it together.
I can tell you I think the quality was really good.
I got lazy with the making a soup every week. This is one of my favorite soups.
It's tomato basil and the nice thing was it was made fresh at Harmons grocery store.
Anything made at Harmons is worth the price, it's so good.
Next time I'll have a recipe that I made.
Well we are all surviving the empty nest and the kids are doing good. I think that is all you
can ask for in this crazy world.
If you have sent your kids off to college or on a mission, or just out into
the world how is it going?
G.G.
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