GordonC: Not Looking Forward To Empty Nest

Gordon Crow: You should consider a self-help pamphlet on ways to deal with the last child leaving the home. My baby boy is only a high school freshman, but I already catch myself ruing the day he leaves to be on his own.

DFO: Gordie; you’d better have plenty of hankies ready for the day you drop Andrew off at college for the first time. I brace myself each time I put one of them on a plane back to Portland or Denver. I’m aware every time they come home for a few days or even longer that they’ll be going back so soon. Time stops for no one. However, we talk to all of them, including my darling daughter-in-law, Stephanie, every week on the phone. That helps.

Question: How did you deal with your last kid leaving home?