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Empty Nesters Reflecting

December 6, 2006 | by Natalie Caine | One Comment

What do you love about parenting and what do you wish for when you anticipate time together with your kids?
1. You did the best parenting you knew how to do at that time.
2. You raised your bar to learn how to be separate from your children and bonded.
3. You are looking forward to sharing stories, laughs, hugs, and peace at home.
4. You are shopping, cleaning, cooking, decorating, and organizing your favorite holiday music to share.
5, YOU ARE REMINDING YOURSELF TO LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS so you don

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  1. Marie says:
    December 18, 2006 at 6:29 am

    We have no tree up, no lights and no interest. Could we just skip this one and hope for a better holiday next year. We are looking forward to church service. Having a dinner with our neigbhors on the eve and a friend is visiting on New Years. My daughter and her boyfriend are coming for Christmas day. My daughter say she will cook, while her boyfirend sleepts because he works a lot during the holidays. I was invited to my aunts and in some way I would rather do that. But did not want to hurt my daughter. Seems like we always have to handle her and her boyfriend and I would like to stop this but don’t want to lose the little contact we have with her. P.S. there was never a problem before. We had a wonderful like with Bri, we thought.

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