Thread: How does one cope when all the chickens fly from the nest....

I've got a way to go yet ... six have left home ... one's in Melbourne, two in Geelong, one in Colac, one in Chile, one in Finland ...that leaves just six to go ... tho one is getting married in May. My youngest turns twenty in the year I turn 70!

But we love it ... having them al together at one time rarely happens, but every family gathering is great fun with kids and grandkids everywhere! And there's a new grandkid arriving in the next week or so. Life doesn't get boring here!

Willem



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Originally Posted by The ho har's

She left this morning

Mrs ho har

Its hard, Mrs HH ... but she'll be back ... at least to visit ...

Willem

A former colleague raised 5 kids from his first two marriages and is now in his third marriage (slow learner). Every time one of them felt all grown up and horny and left home to try life in a flat or share house or to shack up, he moved to a smaller house. He reckons this is the way to go. Smaller, cheaper house and invest the change, no room for the departed sibling to return home. "You left, you're on your own now. Sorry, no room back here. Buy your own toothpaste, toilet, paper, tampons, etc. Join the real world." Now he lives with Mark III in a two bedroom unit on the water at Redcliffe without his five well adjusted responsible kids who have made their own way out of necessity.

How does one cope?

Very, very happily!