Empty Nest

It is also particularly irritating that this God trip happened right now. For one, it has confused me by adding a factor that might be the reason for how I'm feeling. For another, I'm atheist, and I'm going to hate it when in case I get pregnant soon, the family will be calling it a blessing of the Gods or similar.

The husband and I had been avoiding the mandatory trip to the temples associated with the clan after the wedding. It is supposed to be done at the earliest after the wedding to get their blessings. In any case, within a year. We couldn't escape, and had to do it.

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In eighteen days my baby boy will graduate from High School. Baby just meaning he is my youngest. I am pretty much a realist so I have been telling myself this day was coming, get ready for it. None the less, I am not doing well.
I have been raising kids for nearly thirty years and I have loved every minute of it.(Well almost every minute) He is eight years younger than my middle son, so he has been the only child at home for a long time. We are really close and there is going to be a huge hole in my life when he goes off to college. When the other kids left, I missed them alot, but he was still here. What is it going to be like now?

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