Bespeak

A friend -- a woman with three grown daughters -- told me that I should be patient, that it takes three years to get used to living in an empty nest. She was exactly right. I had thought I had settled into a groove earlier, but that was absolutely wrong. Figuring out how you want to conduct your life after the youngest leaves is a far longer process than we think. My littlest one is finishing her junior year in college. I think I am finally getting the hang of the empty nest. Only now.