Empty Nest Explorer Gifts

'I feel so empty since the kids left home.'

"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 think it's time he left home.'

"After the kids left home, I took up gardening!"

"I've been a mess since Jake left for college, so now we have a boy who comes in a couple of times a week to leave wet towels all over and challenge everything I say."

"Now that the kids are gone, do you want to remodel the kitchen or get a divorce?"

"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."

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

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

"We used to entertain a great deal."

"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."

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

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

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

"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!"

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."

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

"We're taking separate vacations this year."

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

"The joy of the house to myself"

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

"They grow up so fast."

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

'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!"

"Kids in college? Well, won't it be nice to have them home?"

'By the time I was your age , I'd already run away from home TWICE!'

"I suppose it's 'Empty Nest Syndrome', doctor. . . ever since Amber left for college I've felt so empty!"

The Old Woman in the shoe questions her decision to spend her empty-nest years in a condo at a ski resort.'

Now that our kids are grown and the house is paid off...

"I've found a way to keep the kids from moving back home. I've replaced the front door with a childproof cap."

"I'm off girls...gonna make the most of being an empty nester, while it lasts!!"