From Mom to Me Again
How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life

There were some very helpful tips in this book and some things that were good places to start. However the overall organization and layout of the book made it difficult for me to follow. It seemed very stream of consciousness and mixed too many different people’s perspectives together. I would not r......more

I didn’t find this book that helpful. Most seemed very obvious......more

With twins entering their senior year of high school, I am doing a lot of thinking about my 4th life chapter, which I call "empty nest" (chapter 1: childhood and college, chapter 2) professional focus, chapter 3) marriage and parenting, and soon, chapter 4) empty nest). I really enjoyed how this aut......more

Quick read, better than the last empty nest book I read. This one was more of a story rather than explicit advice about situations that may arise when your children leave home. There were 3 notable quotes or passages: (From the letter the author wrote to her eldest child upon moving into the dorms the......more

Although my "nest" is still full, I am beginning to realize that life goes by fast and soon it will be empty. We still have one college kid at home for breaks (when she isn't traveling the world :) ) and our son has two years of high school. But while driving home from moving our oldest daughter to......more