Next week, we take our one and only child to college. The impact on all three of our lives will be enormous. My wife and I have spent the past nearly 19 years planning everything around our progeny. Obviously, she'll still loom large but the parameters of our family life will be permanently altered. It's a time for new beginnings for all of us.
My wife and I have talked about new hobbies we can take up and old ones we could renew. Predictably, many of our ideas involve food: exploring Vermont's many restaurants, breweries, vineyards, distilleries, cideries, etc. In our more adventurous moods, we ponder (guided) mushroom foraging or possibly even fly fishing. A couple of weekend trips are under discussion and, of course... excursions to Massachusetts are likely to be more frequent. I expect we'll be watching more movies. We also may become opera nerds.
The blogging schedule will stay the same...
Tuesdays: Family Adventures
Fridays: Star Trek
Occasional book posts
Food is likely to remain the main driver for the Tuesday posts. I'm in need of new inspiration for the cocktail hobby. Perhaps some new books would help. For Trek, I should be able to make it pretty deep into Next Generation's 7th season and Deep Space Nine's 2nd over the next 12 months.
As always, if any of you enjoys reading The Armchair Squid half as much as I enjoy writing it, we're all doing just fine.
She's flying the nest! Many couples have to readjust and even become reacquainted with the love. It sounds like youboth have the same interests. If ever you either to resume the movie theme where we each pick a film to watch.i am in.
ReplyDeleteWe have been watching more films since she left. At some point, I might tell you all about our movie brackets...
DeleteI am decided on not taking up digging up mushrooms. Too many people in this area do that sort of thing and not always with the best results.
ReplyDeleteIt's really important to know what you're doing. Since writing this post, we have gone on a guided forage. There are mushrooms that are relatively safe risks, as in not likely to be mistaken for something poisonous. It's best to start with those.
DeleteBig life moment pending! I wish you all well with this transition. And happy blog anniversary too :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you. A month on, I can say it's been an adventure for all three of us. We still talk to her nearly every day so parenting is by no means over. Just different.
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