Category: Self Care For Empty Nesters
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Learning To Care For Houseplants
Now that you are an empty nester, you may be looking for new activities to fill your free time. Learning to care for houseplants may be a great activity for you. The reason this may be a great activity for empty nesters is that it allows us something to care for. With our children gone…
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Beautiful Places in Oregon
As an empty nester, you can reconnect with your child by taking a trip with them. This summer I took a girls’ trip to Oregon with my Mom and daughter. Our first trip since the dreaded COVID hit. It was wonderful to get out and see someplace new. Not only someplace new, but also a…
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Packing up Your Child’s High School Memorabilia
While my child is at college, I want her to feel like she can return home and have the comforts of her own room anytime she wants. Because of this, I have chosen to keep her room as it was in high school. This includes all of her high school memorabilia. However, once she graduates…
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Shouldn’t I Be Happy my College Student Is Home?
You have missed your child when they were away at college, and now they are coming home for a visit. You are so happy and can’t wait for them to arrive. But now that they are home, it isn’t what you were expecting. Your happiness has turned into frustration. Why is that? Why are you…
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5 Fun Ideas for an Empty Nesting Moms Night Out
Mom’s night out doesn’t have to end just because you are an empty nester. If you never had time for a Mom’s night out, this would be a great time to start. In fact, what better time to have a night spent with friends, other moms, going through the same emotions, challenges and successes related…
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5 Positive Things You’ll Love as an Empty Nester
There is so much negative connotation related to Empty Nesting. But the reality of it is, Empty Nesting has all the positive attributes of being the best time of your life. All it takes is recognizing some of the day-to-day things that are positive about Empty Nesting. These are things you will notice and find…
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Joint and Muscle Pain Beyond 40
Wow! What happened? A year past 45 and my body disowned me! It has turned on me and revolted. Joint and muscle pain had set in. I thought I had been good to my body and had taken care of it. I walked three times a week, occasionally added in some strength training or yoga,…
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Skin Care After Years of Sun Damage
Were you concerned with sun damage in your teens and 20s? Of course not, and neither was I. We were young and nothing could hurt us! If you were a teenager or young adult woman during the 90s, you were probably familiar with tanning beds. I was a frequent tanning bed user for many years…
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10 Outdoor Dates for Empty Nesters (to Rekindle Your Romance)
Dates…Ya’ll remember those, right?? Way back when, before children’s events and schedules took over all our free time, we used to get dressed up, spend time making ourselves look our best and be excited to spend one-on-one time doing anything with our significant other. It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? Believe me, I know…