This photo was taken in 1998 at Disney World. It cannot possibly be ten years since we took this trip. Since then, my hair has turned gray but my wife has remained amazingly hot. The little girl next to me is now a pre-med biology major at the University of Cincinnati. That little boy is now 6' 2-3/4" tall. He is worried that growing another 1/4" will keep him from flying fighter jets. Adam gets good grades in high school, works 20 hours a week, plays guitar in a rock band, and is learning to fly airplanes. He is also in Civil Air Patrol, a military training program sponsored by the Air Force. And like his father, he is a babe magnet.
Debbie and I joke that our kids got all of our good genes and none of our bad ones. Both kids look like Debbie and they got her intelligence and athletic ability. Adam got my musical ability. Sarah got my math skills. And both kids got my fighting spirit. We did not have a third kid because that one was destined to be a genetic disaster.
The empty nest syndrome is hitting us pretty hard. Adam is rarely home and Sarah is away at school. We miss them so much. Last night, we went out to eat with some friends on a weeknight. We have not been able to do that for twenty years. This is just one more road in life’s journey.
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