Happy New Year!

Our Son John- with a borrowed pick up truck -moving out

Empty Nest Syndrome... I've heard alot about it... guess we're getting ready to experience it first hand. Both of our kids have lived away from home and both... for one reason or the other, have returned. We've never had them both out at the same time, until now. They found an incredible deal on a beautiful apartment and just like that- quick as that old pick up could pull into our driveway, they're gone and Debi and I are empty nesters.

Our kids,not really kids at all, Julia, now 26 and John, 24, are both pretty amazing people and we've always enjoyed their times at home. We work together, travel together, play together... they've grown up to be people that I enjoy hanging out with... but life goes on and "to everything..." Debi and I celebrated the new year home alone... no need to leave on a light downstairs... turned out the porch light as I headed up and felt a twinge of nostalgia capture my heart... or maybe arithmia... at my age...

2008 - the edge of new adventures in the Denton household. It'll be interesting to see how the two of them learn to coexist in an apartment. It'll be interesting to see how Debi and I remember how to live together again, without one of the kids under our roof, after 26 years. We're open to all advice.

A well meaning friend high fived me when he heard the news. It didn't feel like a high five kind of moment to me... not sad... just not celebratory either. I understand so much more of what my elders once taught me about the "necessary losses" of growing up- the transitions -this is one of them. I'll miss so much about them being here...

and I still work with them every day!

God's been so very, very good to us- may He richly bless you in the new year to come.

Happy New Year!

take care Julia and John.

Dad