In the beginning, many many years ago, we embarked upon building a family. When we brought our tiny bundle of joy home all we could focus on was the next feeding, the next diaper change, and making sure we didn’t break our kid. We weren’t thinking ahead – no sirree Bob. We were not thinking about preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, high school, or college.
And most importantly whether we blocked it out, or we were just so rootin tootin busy we didn’t give it a second thought that some day we’d be saying goodbye, and moving our kid out into their own place. They don’t teach you about that in school – and let me tell you, that smarts.
Pacific Northwest Empty Nester 
I think about this from time to time. I have twins so we will likely go from two young adult kids at home to zero in one stroke.
They are only 10, though, so I spend more time thinking about the minutiae of the day to day and worrying that they might never leave home than I do worrying about the empty nest.
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