Embracing Change and Rediscovering Life's Phases
Towards the end of this past week, we were talking at the office about our upcoming weekend plans, and it hit me that I'm coming up to a change in the phase of life I'm in... yup, I'm about to become an empty nester. My daughter already left for college last fall, and over the course of the past year we've been going through all the standard senior year milestones with my son – homecoming, college applications, FAFSA, and just this weekend, prom. Speaking of colleges, officially the Cevey household is still in negotiations between the two final choices – I'll let y'all know next month what he finally decided on – but neither of them are in state, so yeah, he's going to be gone also. Yes, they'll be back for holidays and for the summer, but for most of the year it'll be just my husband and I (and our new cat baby) at home. How weird!
It's weird because I can barely remember what life was like as a married couple in the almost two years we had alone before we had kids, which makes sense because that was over 19 years ago. 19 years sounds like a lot, but it also felt like it went by in the blink of an eye. Each phase was so fully engulfing but then before I realized it, we had moved onto the next phase, sometimes gradually, sometimes with a clear punctuating moment. The completely dependent baby phase moved onto the toddler/preschooler phase where they could communicate with us and explore the world around them. School clubs and sports then dominated our lives for over the last decade, with gradually increasing independence on my kids' part, finally (imminently) culminating in this next big transition for them as well as for my husband and me.
Gradually, they'll obviously "adult" more and more, but they'll still be my kids and I still have a ton more life experience and lessons from those life experiences that I want to pass on to them, so I'm thinking parenting is going to take on a whole new twist. But I'm also really excited to see them stretch their wings and fly and start to come into their own. To be honest, I'm also looking forward to getting to explore new hobbies for myself now that all my free time is no longer dictated by my kids' school and extracurricular commitments. Let's see ... sports are out of the question because, well, I have coordination issues. Maybe take up learning piano again? Gardening (flower beds, not vegetables), maybe? Who knows, we'll just have to see what happens!
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