tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008295009112427430.post6064016336226543278..comments2023-07-28T08:43:39.710-07:00Comments on The Bagel Factory: GoneLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10489746595325748833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008295009112427430.post-57248995798442314082011-05-19T11:03:57.339-07:002011-05-19T11:03:57.339-07:00It'll be okay, Liz. It happens like pregnancy...It'll be okay, Liz. It happens like pregnancy - a little at a time till it's time to burst. When they leave at last, there is pain, and there is grief - but in high school, they're gone so much - they start building lives of their own at that point, friends, concerns, their work experiences (the school part) - and though you try to keep in touch - and I did pretty well with that - sharing the experience is still virtual. Then gone to college for months at a time. Then years of missions - and finally, though you haven't realized that they have peeled off in the practical sense of life, they have.<br /><br />But you won't have to find things to do. That's what I thought too. Explain to me then why, when I am retired from the 24/7 job of motherhood - and let me tell you that menopause actually changes the nesting thing in your brain so that a great percentage of women have no interest anymore in cooking and cleaning - (I can testify of this - you accept a state of house you'd never dream that would - because you cease to identify yourself with it) - every flipping day is TOO short. I can't get everything done - things shot, processed, preserved, things created, started, finished, words written, ancestors chased, causes served - suddenly, THE THINGS FIND YOU.<br /><br />So don't worry. Sufficient to the day is the wonder thereof.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02040714440875408436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008295009112427430.post-11140428922300079552011-05-15T21:07:30.191-07:002011-05-15T21:07:30.191-07:00Nah. That makes you a smart mom, and me, a neurot...Nah. That makes you a smart mom, and me, a neurotic one. :DLizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10489746595325748833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008295009112427430.post-14111219605244799332011-05-15T19:50:16.370-07:002011-05-15T19:50:16.370-07:00So, uh, lonely and empty nesty was not necessarily...So, uh, lonely and empty nesty was not necessarily how I was feeling Friday. Free and careless and wonderfully happy would more describe it... :) Does that make me a bad mom?Amber and The Boyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340696536678526622noreply@blogger.com