You already know that planning for a fun time, makes it happen. These photos are from a night out to see the play, IN THE HEIGHTS in Hollywood. We even bought candy which we never do and dressed up, a little. We had a great time. Fantastic music and dancing….we were lifted! You
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As you know, one of my passions is my organic vegetable and flower garden. Here is a surprise: I planted my sunflower seeds all at the same time. I have never grown them. Surprise is, the smallest, shortest plant opened her SUNNY FACE FIRST. I planted all my tomato plants from seed at the same
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If I move from within , I am fine. If my mind rattles, I tumble. Do you Empty Nesters and Boomers have that experience when you have to pull yourself up and begin again? What chatters in your head more than you like? My secret to a quiet head is doing something simple that I
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When you are reaching out for someone to connect with you or crying for the missing of your children who are never home or moved away, do you think howling helps? Have you tried it?Summer Solstice might open that voice in you. Warm nights and time outside. Most parents feel so guilty crying or complaining.
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Would you want to move in with your children and grandchildren? Would you want to live in the same town? What we think might be different than when the reality of making that decision sits on our kitchen table. No harm in looking in the cupboard for tasty and rotten nibbles. You know
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These two sons forgot to call their dad on Father’s Day. Can you feel their stress in this photo? Parents ask me, “At what age will my children remember to call without my reminding them to call?” I bet you guess the answer…there is no documented age for children who remember to call home.
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Marriage, parents want that for their children. They want to like the new family, the partner, the town, the freedom. Now that is the head chatting about the upcoming wedding day , but the EMPTY NESTERS also want to sob, and quickly get over the change that leaves their home silent and old. They have
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“I am heading to college in August, miles away from Dad. I know he wants this “last” Father’s Day to be over the top. He wrote it on the refrigerator, bathroom mirror, and my sock drawer in peanut butter. DO SOMETHING FOR ME. What am I suppose to do, turn back the clock?” As you
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Father’s Day for empty nester Mike is a tradition of calling his daughter and saying, “ARE YOU STILL MY LITTLE GIRL BECAUSE I AM STILL YOUR PROUD DAD?” He knows she will call from her kitchen and he still likes dialing her number from his. What child wouldn’t want to get that phone call? What
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People stop and stare at this painted building in San Francisco. An empty nester mom said to me, “I was never allowed to paint on a building and I am an artist.” What do you wish you were allowed to do without an authority saying, “NO, you can’t do that.” Who do you project “authority”
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Look for something to add beauty to your transition days. For me, it is flowers and photos. What is it for you that helps during changes besides for the softest Kleenex during a well needed deep cry, over and over or comfort food like Mac and Cheese? I start my day in my small
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Empty bird house with a knob that could open what? Parents and Boomers shared with me that the overall do over in parenting would be to worry less and simply enjoy the relationship with their children and to not compare themselves with what other families are doing. They talked about intellectualizing parenting by over thinking
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org