How many of us feel that when the kids are off to college we have a changed life ?
Let’s list the ways:
- We can afford groceries and they sometimes last long enough to outlive their appeal.
- We turn off the outside light at night and never find extra lights left on.
- Loading the dishwasher so often that we wonder how two people go through so many so fast!
- Eating out less because there is no need to cook for the small army with different schedules and tastes.
- Planning to sleep late or just travel with a small amount of clothes. Sometimes just skip coming home.
- Learning to use text in short messages like 25 years ago before email clients and laptops.
- Spending time online or reading a book quietly without guilt.
- Seeing old movies on TV and remembering them from the date to see them in theaters after work.
- Driving a car with an empty or non-existent back seat again.
- Playing the radio or music and finding it still tuned next time.
I am sure I could go on and maybe you find this blog and start your own list. I also find myself doing the math to figure the year my parents were my age.
How big is your photo library ?
I realize that I have become my parents. I used to avoid them and have my own life and friends.
If you’re my age then “The Beatles” songs are remimding us of how we felt as teenagers.
This week kids are getting finished with their college classes and moving away from the dorms or into the next step in life.
I wanted to make an entry in my blog to remember this time later but find it is so small an event that it doesn’t warrant much attention. I feel a writer’s block and leave it to the reader to fill in the story line as though they were writing the list. Go ahead and start your own blog or make an entry as I am leaving this post as is !
