How things are different since the boys have gone to college, month one...

These two are in college???

• There is nobody to ask to take out the garbage...and ask and ask.
• There is much less laundry.
• The dining room has never been used again.
• The dishwasher only needs to be run every other day.
• There is nobody to ask to mow the lawn...and ask and ask.
• Savings on water, electricity, food, clothes, gas. Oh scratch that. No savings. Two tuitions.
• No one plays the piano.
• There are not six to eight pairs of shoes left in the entryway as admission tickets to what was once considered Bethesda’s Best Basement.
• There is no reason to buy 2% milk. Only skim.
• We keep the doors to their rooms closed so that we can pretend they are just in there sleeping.

Today I am flying to Memphis to see one of them. Bet you $100 he has not made his  bed once.