Packing

Spent the evening packing for our upcoming motorcycle trip.  Ten days through the Pyreenes Mountains in northern Spain and southern France. Should be magnificent, as our motorcycle trip two years ago through the Alps certainly was.  Most important items to take: laptop, batteries, cords, iPod, camera.

I will miss the kids the most.  They are 15 (almost) and 11, and we are right there with them in virtually all they are doing.  I wouldn’t miss any of it — great time of life.  My daughter tonight said “Who will I talk to while you’re gone?”  Three of the four grandparents will be waiting on them hand and foot, but nontheless it touched my heart.  We agreed: no new boyfriends, no great sleep-overs with friends or exciting developments of any kind — I don’t want to miss a thing!  Basically, don’t live while I’m gone.

How in the world am I going to handle empty nest?