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I miss the kids when I go to Fl. for so long,... but it still comes down to man and wife.. You have to do what makes you happy. The kids have had us a loooong time.. Now it's our time. You will find that out when you get that RV all spiffed up and on the road.. You have to have fun with the kids or without them, and make it good...

Oh oh.. I just noticed I posted on 666.. Well that was my old email addy.. Crafter.. My son in law gave me it, and I am a develish crafter... lol

I agree totally...we have the kids for a time, and then it seems before we know it, they are on their own, with lives of their own...so man and wife had better be able to enjoy life, on their own, as a couple....

When Andy first went away to college, I cried and cried for about a month, I missed him so very much....Michael had died years before, so when Andy went away to college, I was truly without a kid around the house, and things seemed so very bleak and empty without my boys...but as that first month without Andy went its way, I was feeling better and adjusting to not having him around...

When he came home at Christmas, I was so very happy to see him...he was to be home for three weeks...let me tell you, after two weeks, I was ready for him to go back...

It was also kind of a small strain, when Andy moved in with us for two months after he returned from his world trip...we were delighted to have him stay with us till he got his bearings, but it was weird having ones grown up child come back home to live...

I actually think that separation from Andy is harder on Dom that it is on me...I think thats because when they were infants and little kids, Dom was always working or in school...I was a breastfeeding mom, so those early months were just so intense with my nursing....

Then Dom joined the army, when the boys were small..and then my role with the boys increased all the more...Army life for an airborne soldier, is not conducive to that soldier spending enormous amts of time with their kids...they are always in the field, TDY, overseas, training in other states...so that I became both mom and dad for a long, long time...

Dom, unfortunately missed out on a lot of that growing up time, ,due to the military....thats why I think he actually misses Andy more than I do...I have maximum copious amts of time with Andy when he was growing up, and Dom feels he did not have enough, no fault of his own, tho...

Thats why I like it when sometimes Dom goes up to Seattle by himself, and my two men spend a sports weekend together, without me...often Dom and Andy will do things together, and I opt out, knowing that Dom really needs more time with Andy than I do...

Nonetheless, I am missing Andy, with the holidays approaching...holidays are always time for family, and I guess this is when I most miss Andy, on the loose in Seattle, and of course miss Mike, gone to Heaven...

Kids, they are a true blessing...