From new sleep research to papers that keep your produce fresher longer, I'm sharing what I'm learning & loving in my empty nest this month!
Just like any other season of life, the empty nest comes with joys and challenges. Learn to embrace it by celebrating these 8 great things.
It's been a wild couple of weeks in our country. But there are still things to love about the USA! Here are 10 things I love about America!
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Suzy Mighell is a Dallas-based Influencer and empty nester. She is the personality and content creator behind the popular blog and lifestyle brand Empty Nest Blessed. EmptyNestBlessed.com is where Suzy shares everything that is important to us as empty nesters – from fashion and beauty, to travel, wellness, parenting, and more! She joyfully shares her
I had envisioned our empty nest life as a succession of long, blissful evenings and lazy weekends in a carefree calendar. Oh, bless my heart.
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Just like any other season of life, the empty nest comes with joys and challenges. Learn to embrace it by celebrating these 8 great things.
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I want to come alongside you in the empty nest season of life and guide you in lifestyle topics where you feel like you need a friend!
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You throw away leftovers instead of never having enough. You turn the radio on for noise instead of turning it down for quiet. You still buy a gallon of milk at a time, but find yourself giving half to the neighbors before it spoils. You frequent Facebook to see glimpses of your college student instead of telling her that she shouldn't spend so much times posting pictures. You pray more than you work, although prayer is the hardest work of all. It is a different season of life. Not all good, not all bad, just different. My friend Cheryl shared a book with me that she found insightful and encouraging. It's called Barbara and Susan's Guide to the Empty Nest -- Discovering New Purpose, Passion, and Your Next Great Adventure. Its co-authors Barbara Rainey, of Family Life Today fame, and Susan Yates, a mother of five, come alongside their readers in empathy and identification with the realities of the empty nest. What I appreciated about this book is that although they speak candidly from their own lives about the sad emotions that often come with launching their children out of their homes and into adult lives, they also share the other side of the coin. Empty nest time can be a time of great personal growth, opportunity, and adventure. With chapters like "What do I do with my loneliness?," "What do I do with my disappointments?," "How do I relate to my husband now?," and "How do I relate to my adult kids now?," they discuss the realities of a home and a life in transition. In chapters such as "Celebrate!", "Discovering Your New Purpose," and "Changing Your World," they share the perspective that the empty nest season can be a wonderful time of life. While I miss my young adult daughters' presence in my home greatly, I am also enjoying some of the freedoms of the pre-parenting years. I enjoy spending uninterrupted time with my husband again. I like buying a tub of ice cream one day and knowing it will still be there the next. I like receiving phone calls from my girls sharing the big things and the small. I like more time to write, and think, and pray. I absolutely loved being a mother of young children. I absolutely love being a mother of young adults. Each is a season of life that holds great potential, joy, and adventure if we seek God's face every day. I encourage you to pick up a copy of Barbara and Susan's Guide to the Empty Nest. You'll be comforted, encouraged, and challenged to give your empty nest years to the Lord and watch what He will do in your life. If you enjoyed this post, why not subscribe? I'll send you twice-weekly 5-minute devotions to help nourish your soul. Because women need to connect with God in the craziness of life. Enter your email address and VALIDATE the Feedburner email sent to your inbox. Delivered by FeedBurner
The A-Z Challenge ~ Why Midlife's Fabulous ~ The Empty Nest
As a middle aged woman I have overcome a lot of obstacles and have had to deal with different life changes, some good and some bad. I’ve been through divorces, grief, empty nest syndrome, depression and PTSD, money problems plus much more and this has tak…
So, Day 1 of keeping Baby M for 9 days has ended and Wowza. I need to sleep for at least 2 days. Yeah, I am NOT kidding. The morning was great! We got up and played and then had breakfast with Great-Mimi. Then we played a whole lot more and had some lunch followed by Baby M napping. Sounds uneventful enough, right? Just wait for it... I figured I was doing good by getting my teeth brushed and clothes on this morning so taking a shower could wait until Baby M napped. Wrong. Baby R's mommy was not comfortable showering without anyone there watching the baby (his daddy was at work) so she came over here to shower. And there went my shower. Ok, at least I did get the fish chowder made for dinner. But then, Baby M's nap was over and she had some kind of rough afternoon. The kind where something was bothering her but you don't know what because she's 13 months old and can't tell you so you start going through all the possibilities. Well, turns out she was having tummy problems (which she's had since birth, well almost that long) and developed a horrid diaper rash in a matter of an hour. I gave her the tummy medicine and put Twigs and Roots Baby Balm on the rash. The tummy wasn't feeling better. I held that sweet child from 3:30 until she turned the corner around 8:00. No biggie except that Tucker wanted out and I couldn't get up to let him out right then so he went into Mother's room and then the nursery to have some doggy diarrhea. Which I couldn't clean up right away because I couldn't put Baby M down without her crying and screaming and no one wants that so... My sweet girl went down for the count and I was finally able to feed Mother her dinner which boiled over and left a mess so there was that to clean up. Finally, at 9:00 I was able to call all things done and cleaned up and sit down to write this post all about our first day. I'm just going to say that it is a very good thing that people my age don't have children because if it was possible I would have only had one and would have seriously considered giving that one back. Middle age Ok, but when Y'all see these pictures of Baby M meeting her cousin for the first time you'll see why it's all so worth it. I can clean up next weekend. When I wake up from the very large nap I plan on taking. I'm pretty sure Baby R passed inspection. And Baby M did inspect him thoroughly--even his toes. And for those of you who haven't seen the video: Only 6 more days, Y'all. Please visit my Etsy shop, CoasterDoodles and feel free to FAVORITE the shop or buy something! 😁💓
Are struggling with the idea of an empty nest? Consider the blessings that God has in store as children gain independance and transition out of the home.
