The Adventure Begins!

Today marks the first week that our daughter, Beth has not lived under our roof!  How crazy is that, and who came up with the idea that kids should move out??!!  Paul will forever refer to it as the day our daughter ran away.

It's funny how we are accustomed to our kids being in the house.  I cooked dinner for all 3 of us last night.  I even got out 3 plates.  Paul got up and started tip-toeing around the house yesterday morning so he wouldn't wake Beth up.  I wake up at about 12:00 each night and have to remind myself that she isn't going to be in her bed asleep when I go check on her.  Each of those things brings a little bit of a tug at our hearts.

The good news is that we both hear from her every day.  Most of the time more than once.  She's always so excited to tell us what's going on in her life.  What happened at class. The ups and the downs.   How her roommates had a blast getting her ready to go out on a date.  It's so funny.  I'm so thankful for cell phones!

So Beth is on a new adventure, and our hope and prayer is that she makes wise choices, works hard, makes tons of friends, and has a successful experience.  That she always remembers to thank God for the gifts and blessings in her life and to call on Him daily - in the good and the bad.

But Beth is not the only one on an adventure - Paul and I are starting an adventure of our own. It's taking a while to build up the excitement, it's strange trying to acclimate ourselves to the adventure - But we are Empty Nesters.  Hmm.  What exactly does that mean? 

In the next few weeks, we'll keep you posted on the "Boyer Chronicles".  It's a new blogcom that outlines the madcap adventures of two physically middle-aged adults (who have the emotional and maturity levels of 12 year olds).  These two people, we'll call them Paul and Sara, are searching for ???  Well - they have no idea what they are searching for!!!???!!! Lord - Please help us - this could get crazy!!