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Site title: Mama's Empty Nest – Redefining life after the fledglings have flown

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He keeps popping up here and there.

He stands on my oldest grandchild’s bedroom nightstand.

He was gifted to one of my sisters by a gracious stranger she encountered in a store and now can be found on the dashboard of my sister’s vehicle.

Somehow he fo...


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Attending worship services at a church is an important aspect of my life. I’ve been in church since I was a youngster because it was important to my family and our faith.

After living in several communities and areas of our country, we two empty nesters have visited and worshipped our God in many different church buil...


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Yesterday’s post here in Mama’s Empty Nest was all about bridges and how I feel connected enough to them to snap photos whenever we find a historic covered bridge or we cross a more “modern” one.

It’s a fact that bridges are a connection in themselves. They connect one side of land at a body of water, whether it be...


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There’s a saying that I’ve heard many times: “Cry me a river; build me a bridge; and get over it.”

Bridges do provide a means to get over it, from one place to another, not just physically but metaphorically as well. And for some reason when we two empty nesters embark on a road trip in our trusty SUV, I’m drawn to pho...


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Maybe it’s just because we’re senior citizens now, the older generation in our family, but in the last few years, we two empty nesters find ourselves reminiscing often about the past – our pasts specifically.

My husband and I find ourselves sharing stories with each other about our parents, other long gone family membe...


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