I am sitting here in this house that is way to quiet for a Saturday.  I am bordering on being empty nester.  My daughter Megan who is 21 is away in Maryland doing an Engineering Internship.  My son Tommy who is 20 hasn't decided what he wants to do yet, so he is working at Domino's here in Hibbing and trying to make his way in life.  He does live at home still, I mean why wouldn't you?  Free rent, laundry service, meals, and the list goes on. 

While I am super proud of Megan for being successful in her studies, is it so wrong to miss her so much?  I am here to tell you that, yes it's ok to cry after you've done the facetime thing for over an hour.  I'm not going to lie, my husband and I sought out a marriage counselor because honestly, we were lost.  While you read all of the books you can get your hands on when you're pregnant, where is the book for when they are leaving the nest?  There is nothing.  So here we are, marriage counseling is VERY helpful.  After 23 years, you'd think we would have it figured out.....ha!  So instead of me being mopey she suggested that I turn that attention to my husband.  Insert deer in headlights right there.  We bowl together on Friday nights, and enjoy going ice fishing.  She stated that we needed to schedule a date night,  Every week.  And that it should rotate as to who gets to pick, etc.  Well so far, we've stunk it up.  Excuses, excuses.  We flat out need to get better at making time for just the two of us.  This next weekend we are going ice fishing again, but that doesn't count, so back to square one.