Becoming Empty Nesters Gifts

"Uh oh. It's the kids...and they're flying back!"

'Put this in the window! One of our kids is coming up the walk with a suitcase!'

The garage sale had gone even better than they had expected. 'Both our kids are gone.' '...And we made an extra twenty bucks.'

"I won't consider the nest empty until they're off our phone plan."

It seems so big now that the kids are gone.

"After the kids moved out I turned their space into a guest room."

Empty Nester Apple Picking - "Not THAT one, you idiot!"

Sixty is the new fifty mostly because all the money we saved in the last decade is gone.

'Of course me and Lottie never got around to having kids'

'Well so far I don't see a down side to the 'empty nest'.'

"The kids may have left the nest, but they were kind enough to leave some reminders just in case we get lonely."

"I'm all for pushing them out of the nest, but maybe next time we could wait till they hatch."

'Think about it guys: We're fed and sheltered, why would we ever think about leaving the nest?'

"Your mother and I think it's time you got a place of your own. We'd like a little time alone before we die."

"We've waited twenty-five years to make this trip, and we're certainly not interested in getting there in any six and a half hours."

"No, I want to know the meaning of never calling your mother."

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

"We used to entertain a great deal."

'Honey...you're spoiling that child.'

I think it's time he left home.'

"I'm so sorry that I screamed...I had a terrible dream: the kids had to leave college and live with us again...Oh, Ed, it was horrible!"

The kids called. They'll be home in five. Our week alone flashed by. It was like getting to know you all over again. I'm starving! Anyone call? I need the computer! Where's the remote? What's your name again?

"Well that's the last of our offspring gone - let battle commence."

"The nest may be empty, but our drinks are full."

I'm here to update your census form. Since you mailed the form in, have any of your children moved back in with you?

"No need to push, Mother—I'm going."

"Remember, son, no matter what happens to you, we intend to always keep your room at home exactly as it is right now...empty."

"I didn't think you'd still be here at thirty."

'Now that you have a job, Tom, Dad and I are turning your room into a condo!'

"The joy of the house to myself"

"They grow up so fast."

"He insists he can't leave until he has a full-time job."

'You let me out. What I do when I'm out is my business.'

'Do you think Mum and Dad are trying to keep an eye on us, by enroling on the same university course as us, Colin?'

"Since he retired, he hasn't quite figured out what to do with himself!"