Because I am your mom...

These words are truth, I couldn't have said it better myself.

Did someone plagiarize me???

 Our baby left us a year ago this month.

Yep we have officially survived a solid year of being alone

Just he two of us   i.e empty nesters.

Our middle boy left us almost 7 years ago for this lovely lady

Our oldest left us almost 10 years ago for this handsome dude.

 Oh, dont feel sad for us,

(even though my mama heart yearns for all of them to be home with me so that I can take care of their every need, help them make decision that I feel are best for them,

wipe away their tears and buy their underwear).

I know , I know .... 

You did what you were suppose to do, you raised them the best you knew how,

 now they have to go and live their own life... yada yada yada

My 3 grown adult babies kids

My heart is split three ways and its walking around outside my body.
Once a mom....always a mom!

I'm gonna be honest here, those of you in the same boat can probably relate to the "empty nest"

The things nobody tells you
You are still gonna worry about those kids of yours
and then....
they go and have kids (your grandbabies) which sets off another whole set of worries.
It's not that we don't believe that our kids will be good parents,
after all they have us as role models, RIGHT????
 It's just that, well sometimes I think that those babies are mine, I'm not gonna lie about it.

So in summary, It's been a year, since the youngest jumped
 Rick and I are surviving the empty nest.
Our kids are wonderful adults, they are pretty great
 our grands even better.

Gavin is a wonderful young man.... still single.
Brie, Chris, Brice and Jenny are great parents, they share their babies with us
 and we feel loved even though they don't live with us anymore.

It's all good... sometime us mom's just gotta say what's on her heart!

It's official... we are empty-nester's

I knew the day would come, but I'm thankful it came slowly!

Our youngest, Gavin flew the nest tonight.

 He gave us one day warning, although he's been hinting for 

several weeks that he is thinking about moving in with 3 of his friends. 

All have been friends since high School.

Gavin is our adult child who still "lives" at home... but not really. 

For the last couple of years, (when he's not at work), he's hanging out with friends, they stay so busy with "disk" (it's like frisbee golf), bowling,  movies, watchin' games, and.... 

you know those things young guys do.

 He would come home every night to sleep, 

I would sometimes see him in the morning before he left for work,

 and he usually spent Sunday afternoons at home with us. 

Even though it felt like he really wasn't here that much... 

I still knew he would be home every night.

So yeah.... He did it, he flew!

Lots of emotions, Happy-Proud-Sad-Proud-Worried(a little)-Proud.....

I know it's what we wish for our children, we raise them to be responsible adults,

 to be on their own, and to experience "life" without mom & dad.

It's been hard with each one as they've departed the homestead, 

but I have to say they are great kids and we are proud of all three!

   

 Loading Tyler's van

 (Tyler played football with Gavin, and also threw disk & shotput in high school). 

A big work van made it an easy move!!! 

 More stuff

 There he goes.... Gulp

Gavin invited Rick and I to follow him over to see his new home. 

He is living in a 4 bedroom house, about 4 miles from us.

Pretty cool for these four friends.

The next chapter.... So happy for my boy!