Empty Nest….? Hah!

Having raised four children, with the youngest just having graduated from high school and now off to college, my wife and I have been preparing for the “empty nest”. We heard fanciful rumours of this blessed stage for years. We longed for and dreamed about this during the child-rearing years, tirelessly working and traveling this path with a yearning not unlike the pioneers of old heading West on the wagon train to get to the spacious lands of plenty.