We're not officially and Empty Nesters!

Hi Ted, Empty Nest Syndrome got me 5 adoptive kid's and a lot of new life in the house. Try it you might just find you like it. Hugs Marilyn

Haha, I'm a pre-nester I guess! I don't have any kids yet. But my parents are in a similar situation to you! I just moved out of my parents' house a few months ago. My younger brother is away at college... so they're currently empty nesters! My brother does come home for holidays though. And he stays at home for part of the summer. (The rest of the summer he spends doing internships or living with his girlfriend while working at school.) But he's never really there for extended periods of time. My boyfriend is the oldest of 5 and in a short period of time his parents went from having 5 kids living at home to only 2! He and one of his sisters have both moved out and have their own places, and one of his brothers joined the army. His other sister just graduated from high school and is living at home working and taking time off from school until she figures out where she wants to go to college and what she wants to study. And his other brother just graduated from college and is living at home for a year or so until he goes to grad school. So it won't belong before both of them move out and his parents are empty nesters! I'm not sure how is mother will deal! She's so used to having so many kids around and being in mom mode all the time!

Have not made it to empty nest yet, but as the number of kids at home continues to decrease, it already feels different. Currently have two in college. A year from now a third will join them, and that will leave just one at home for four years of high school. I can only imagine how different it will be when they are all out. I doubt my wife and I are really ready to experience that.

i know this sounds sorta mean but i am sorta looking forward to it! lol our oldest daughter is 17 but our baby is 13 so we have a while. but i know i will miss them alot though!

I have been a widow for ten years and my house is still there for my children. Only once were all four off the Island and it did feel a little weird. However, I have one son living more or less permanently now and is wife and children who are in Doha come for 9 weeks in summer and he visits them at Christmas and Easter and talks every day with them on skype. Then I have a daughter and fiance who visit every weekend and another son visits frequently and then another son comes out from the U.K. every Christmas for a month and we also talk every day either by phone or blackberry. The culture is different out here and the children stay as long as they like with parents. And no they are not wusses I am so happy to have them around as it is such fun and they are all close.