Not much accomplished on the homestead this weekend because we were taking Thomas off to college. We let him finish out his senior high school year back in KC. This meant over the bulk of this last year, we hadn’t seen him but off and on. We did have him all summer, and now he’s off to start his own adventure.
I wish we had started our homestead journey many years earlier, Thomas loves animals. It would have been amazing to have seen him spend more years and time around them.
Tom is a smart guy and tries hard to help other people. It is tough to see him go off into the bigger world where we can’t protect him as much. I fear for his big heart in a rough world. The time has come, though, as it has with a couple of our other kids to be off on their own.
There are times when I think it will be great to be an empty nester, and there are other times I fear it.