Pros and Cons

It's only been a week since our last little bird has left home and our nest has been empty. These are the things that I miss already:

• indulging in a bowl of mac & cheese because she already made up a batch of it
• a few of my favorite shoes
• someone to go to Walmart with me at 10:30 pm
• watching trashy TV shows she picks (while doing my moral motherly duty of pointing out how bad they are)
• watching Disney channel
• her guacamole
• a second opinion on wardrobe options

There's got to be an upside to empty nestdom (just made that word up I think) so I'm making a list:

• Cleaning the house then watching as it mostly STAYS that clean and picked up
  

• Downsizing--Clearing out the house (from college boy's cast offs, college girl's unwanteds, and 30 years of collections) then selling it off or hauling it off for someone else to enjoy
  

• Smaller loads of laundry

• Buying the kind of orange juice I LIKE (medium pulp with Calcium)
  

• Going to sleep when i go to bed vs. staying awake until I hear the garage door open and close
  

I'm sure there are other advantages we will discover as time goes on but for now I am grateful for Skype,
Facebook,
Twitter,
texting,
and Verizon.....just so I won't miss her tooo much.