{"id":1330,"date":"2010-11-04T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2010-11-04T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T18:24:59","slug":"no-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/no-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"No fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article “Don’t want the freedom of the empty nest<\/a>” resonated with me, particularly these paragraphs:<\/p>\n

“The sad thing is, when my own children were small our family activities had to be restricted mostly to free things. My decision to be a stay-at-home mom at that point meant an entertainment budget so tiny as to be nonexistent.<\/p>\n

I guess I could call my kids and announce the exciting news that I can now swing the money for pony rides, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think they would react quite how they would have a decade or so ago….<\/p>\n

I hear so many people my age talk about the freedom of the empty nest. No need to worry about getting a babysitter to go out. No need to worry that a kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recital or sports meet might pre-empt your wish to go somewhere with your friends. These things are true, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also true that I can no longer visit Santa at the mall or attend Easter egg hunts. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fair trade.”<\/p>\n

Since we had kids, my life has been all about enjoying my life WITH my kids.<\/p>\n

With just a couple more years before my nest is totally empty, I am trying to plan on how to enjoy life as an adult without kids.<\/p>\n

I suppose that’s why I like to hang around the kids at church. I suppose that’s why I want to go live in a foreign country for a while. That is something I never wanted to do with kids, something that would’ve been bothersome with kids, and now I can do it freely with my husband.<\/p>\n

My challenge is to maintain enthusiasm for life and not let age and health issues…and the empty feelings of the empty nest get the best of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article “Don’t want the freedom of the empty nest” resonated with me, particularly these paragraphs: “The sad thing is, when my own children were small our family activities had to be restricted mostly to free things. My decision to be a stay-at-home mom at that point meant an entertainment budget so tiny as to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}