Once the nest is empty, whats the first thing your going do?

[homemaker carol]

Because I have one kid that came back home several times and a number of times with kids of her own, once the younger kids have left I plan on making their rooms into a dream sewing room and a dream library. I don't think I'll have any extra beds around the house. :D

[Darlene]

Well once I clean my house it will stay that way alot longer.;) Not planning to do anything with their rooms because I know they will be home on breaks & such. Do plan on getting rid of or putting away alot of things. Downsizing a bit.
Won't have to put my bathrobe on in the middle of the night.:D Little things will add up.:)

[Mrscornbread]

Okay Darlene, we are thiniing along the same path here. This is so serious, not meant to be funny...

I want to sleep on the couch stark naked and watch tv!

I guess it is just the lure of the forbidden with so many men in the house, I feel like odd girl out much of the time.

Just seems like it would be so fun, especially on a hot summer night!

[Dee]

Well I hope I never have an empty nest, LOL! :D

But someday we would love to have a big 5th wheel and travel with our kids. I can dream can't I? ;)

[Jayne]

I don't think you ever really have an empty nest...my kids are here alot!!!...and now my grandson is here for sleep overs alot...with the new grandbaby coming its gonna get even more crowded, so I guess it truely is never really empty :rolleyes: ..and you know what? thats fine by me :)

[DaisyLady]

The minute the youngest one is out the door, we are selling this house and buying a little two or three bedroom way out in the boonies, where no self respecting 20 something would be caught dead. DH wants to have a pool so we can go skinny dipping :D I also like the no robe in the middle of the night thing!

Once the nest is empty the goal is to keep it that way :)

[PrairieRose]

My nest is empty so I'll tell you a few of the things I've already done...

I did a lot of "nothing I didn't want to do" for a few weeks.....which wasn't that great an idea. My reg. work piled up on me and I felt like I had no routine for a long while. I started really thinking about who I was.....what I wanted for myself and Gripey for the rest of my life. I'm still in this phase but am finding that I'm so much more comfortable where we are than I imagined I would be. Oh, did I mention that I CRIED a lot? yeah I did..... a LOT. I wandered around the empty house (nest) listening to the quiet. At first I didn't like that much, but now I love it. I read, I watched movies, tv shows I'd been wanting to watch. We cooked and ate things that we never would have had when the kids were at home b/c they didn't like em. We ate out a lot at first too. I started cleaning out ds's room (who had been in his own apt. and was engaged to be married by this point) and re-decorated it. I re-decorated dd#2's room, with her help when she came home for the summer from college. I started re-decorating and re-furnishing the rest of the house.......in my mind... . Making plans for the re-do a little at a time. I'm working along on that now.

Now, it's been 4 yrs. since our nest emptied out. Where am I now? What am I doing with myself? I hate that last question b.t.w. . I'm doing pretty much the basics of keeping the home fires going, which is what I want to do. I'm still re-doing the house a little at a time and I'm spending MUCH more time with my husband, best friend and partner in life. I keep the books for our businesses, do the banking, do our personal books and banking, cook, clean, wash, shop, run and fetch things for dh and sometimes help the kids do things but mostly I'm still adjusting. Yes, after 4 years I'm still adjusting to this empty nest. The thing is, now it doesn't feel so much empty as quiet. Which I appreciate. Gripey and I can pick and go somewhere for a weekend at a moments notice, which we do often times now. I love that. I also love that we have quiet evenings at home, in stark contrast to the run and gun lifestyle that we had when we had our dk's at home. They were involved in everything at school so we followed them everywhere. I had no life of my own back then and now, I'm making one. There are still so many more things I want to do....and thought I'd have much more time to do when the last one left home that I haven't had yet. But it's all good, really it is. Look forward girls. It's very nice.

[Michelle]

I am thinking we will move to a less expensive town/state, downsize to a smaller home that we won't need to do as much upkeep on, and basically just relax in our time off! :)

[Sara]

I'll be so old, I'll be lucky to get the mail. lol On a more serious note, I can't even imagine the nest being empty yet.

[dolphindream]

ROFL at Sara! My nest won't be empty for quite a while and I can't imagine it either.

[homemaker carol]

LOL Sara, too cute.

[marym]

After 3 boys I am cleaning out their rooms and all the old sports stuff in the garage! I already turned my youngest sons room into a room for the Grandkids. It's cute, I put a twin bed and a crib in the room. I stenciled a
Noahs Ark border around the room. The bedding is pale green and the walls pale yellow.
DH and I sleep with the bedroom door open!!!!!! Never did that before.
Cooking for 2 is not easy for me. I always cook too much!
I do love the quite time.
Now don't get mad at me but...once the dogs go over the rainbow. NO MORE DOGS!! I am tried of dog hair and pooper scooping. (I do love them, I just don't want anymore) I will always have a cat though.

[KimSecret]

When my nest is empty, I want to make my son's room (the smallest room) my scrapbooking room and make my dd's room (quite large) the guest room.