A whole year?

Who'll drink the milk?

The worst part about having no kids left at home? We're going to have to start buying milk in fractions of gallons and that's what old people do. The milkman delivered quarts of milk to my grandparents. Quarts! I remember bringing the quaint little cartons into the house and wondering why they even bothered with such small quantities. Christopher drinks a quart in one sitting. We used to buy two gallons at a time, then finally realized that we needed only one at at time. I have a feeling I'll be dumping partially consumed gallons of milk that have gone sour until I can ease myself into buying half gallons. But quarts? Old people buy quarts because there's no one left at home to drink it all up before it spoils. No one left at home.

It's just us

Once again Chloe doesn't live here anymore, although this time she's closer than an ocean away. Yesterday we moved her into her dorm, to her room on the fourth floor, exactly eleventy-billion flights of steps up, after walking uphill to get to the first flight of steps. No, no elevator to assist with moving in, but it might be a cure for the freshman 15. I love these dorm rooms and have wanted to live in one ever since I visited a high school friend who lived there. She's on the top floor so they have vaulted ceilings and it looks and feels like living in a treehouse. Her roommate is really nice and they live very close to the new state-of-the-art rec center so Chloe should be in good shape.

On the way home Steve, out of nowhere, says, "I don't have to wear my bathrobe anymore." Well, hon, you might want to wear it in the kitchen in the morning when your sister is looking over to see what's up. Then, while waiting for the ferry, he was joking about me fishing through my purse getting money to buy a can of pop and he told me to hurry up. I told him to keep his pants on. "When we get home I won't have to." Apparently we're taking different paths to processing our emotions related to our last kid leaving home and it being just the two of us from now on.