Living Whole Food Plant-Based
Yea!!! I did it!!! Do you remember me posting about those cute shorts that I wanted to be able to wear on vacation? Well, thanks to a few lifestyle changes, I put them on this morning and they fit just like they did last year! No strenuous exercising, no starving myself diet, just good old fashioned common sense. [Read more…]
Now that you have an empty nest and your life has taken a new path, this is your chance to reinvent yourself. I know there are a lot of people who don’t like change but let’s face it, your life has already changed, so why not really shake things up! [Read more…]
We all know we should drink more water and that the health benefits of doing so are numerous. So drinking water should not be a problem, right? If only it were that easy! Most people do not drink the amount of water that they should on a daily basis. [Read more…]
Getting healthy and fit is a wonderful goal for anyone but for those in an empty nest it is a little harder. Our lifestyles have changed and sometimes we didn’t adjust our lives to compensate for it. We are still cooking enough for a family instead of a couple and we are not running around shuffling our children from place to place every day. In my case, it seems that I am eating more and moving less and my waistline has really suffered. [Read more…]
Father’s Day is so different when you have an empty nest. A lot of the time the children are just not able to be home for special days like this. As in our case our children are not close enough to come home. Thank goodness for the internet! Phillip was able to video chat with our daughter earlier today and is video chatting with our son as I write this. This is amazing to me as my daughter is 300 miles away and my son is deployed and in Germany right now! [Read more…]
The children have all left home and the house is eerily quiet. Your first instinct is to feel sad and lonely. I know this because that is exactly how I felt. I wish someone had sat me down and told me what I am going to tell you. Listen up now because this is very important. It is time to CELEBRATE! That’s right, I said it! Don’t let me catch you sitting around feeling sorry for yourself! You have done something amazing and it is time to bask in the glory! [Read more…]
I spent my morning organizing the closet and it made me feel wonderful! Don’t misunderstand me, I am not that person that enjoys cleaning or organizing, but I love the end result! I love the satisfaction of looking at my closet and knowing exactly what’s in it and where it is. [Read more…]
The romance in my marriage disappeared so gradually that I didn’t even miss it. Then one day I woke up and the children were gone and I wondered where it was. It’s so easy to let your passion and romance slip by the wayside when life gets in the way. Raising children, taking care of a home, and all the other things that come with being a responsible adult seem to take precedence. Now you are left wondering how to get that romantic feeling back again. [Read more…]
Today I would like to bring up a subject that a lot of people just do not understand, Empty Nest Syndrome. I touched on this briefly in a recent post but I would like to go a little farther with this one. While some people seem to cope with their children leaving home quite easily, others feel overwhelming loneliness, grief, and depression. These feelings should not be ignored. [Read more…]
Marriage… Without children! How long has it been since the two of you have lived alone? For some of you, it may be never. That was the case for me and my husband. Our daughter, Cindy, was from my previous marriage and we came as a package deal! So when our son, David, left home it was the first time we had ever been alone together. It took some getting used to but once we figured it out it was, and still is, amazing!