My dear friend, Kimberly, who is also a recent empty-nester, told me this anecdote while we were walking last week. She had walked by the elementary schools the day before and was surprised for a few seconds that people were dropping off children for school. It came as a momentary surprising thought to her that if SHE had no school children left, why was school still going on as usual for others???
It wouldn't have been nearly as entertaining to me if I hadn't had almost the exact same experience the day before. I was driving to the post office and I saw two teenage girls walking in the park. "Hey!" I thought to myself, "That looks like (Maddie's friends) Jana and Amy." Then I scoffed, "Oh, Silly. It can't be Jana and Amy. Jana's working in an orphanage in Cambodia and Amy's away at college." Then, just for a moment I thought, "Well, how can there still be high school girls here, if I don't have any left?? Why is school still going on as usual for others..." :)
Jana, Amy, and Maddie in their
"Charlie's Angels" prom photo.
Kinda silly, I know, but just exemplifies how completely our lives have changed. I DID have children at home for 36 years in a row, after all!
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