Empty Nest

So my son is off to spend the night with his friend. I never knew that teenage boys spent the night at each other's houses, I honestly thought that was a "girl' thing. This time though he has a really good reason. He's going to be spending the week with this family at Panama City Beach. He's spending the night tonight because they are leaving early in the morning.

Of course, like I said before this isn't his first time to spend the night with someone and it's not the first time he's been on a trip. It is, however only the second time since I've been divorced that he's been gone away from home for so long. I don't have a problem letting him go, but the house is extremely quiet without him here. Make sure you got that, I said it's extremely quiet, not too quiet.

Quiet can be good, but it can also be excruciatingly painful. It's difficult to sit here night after night with just the noise of the television or radio. It's difficult to sit here with no one to talk to. Well, there is the cat but he has a tendency to walk away when he's had enough. Oh wait, that's what my son does too. I guess nothing will really be that different.

With him being gone for the week I guess I get to practice my "empty nest syndrome" strategy. Is there such a thing? Do you really get to practice for the time when your child will no longer be at home? All week I will have to cook for one (and I have no clue how to do that), wash clothes for one and cleanup after one. I will have so much spare time I won't know what to do with myself. The phone won't be ringing off the hook either.

I will definitely need to get a hobby or a life before my son graduates from high school and moves off to college. If I don't the mother bird in this nest might just go cuckoo.