It's our first empty-nester Easter!

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Anonymous wrote:Wait - college kids don’t come home for Easter??? I am so dreading this.

Why are you assuming OP's kids are in college?

It’d be even odder that an adult with PTO isn’t spending Easter with parents.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait - college kids don’t come home for Easter??? I am so dreading this.

Why are you assuming OP's kids are in college?

It’d be even odder that an adult with PTO isn’t spending Easter with parents.

Really? I think Easter is not a particularly important holiday for a lot of people, even Christians, especially if it involves plane travel. You guys really do live in a bubble, don't you?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait - college kids don’t come home for Easter??? I am so dreading this.

Why are you assuming OP's kids are in college?

It’d be even odder that an adult with PTO isn’t spending Easter with parents.

Really? I think Easter is not a particularly important holiday for a lot of people, even Christians, especially if it involves plane travel. You guys really do live in a bubble, don't you?

I agree. We visited my very religious Christian in-laws when the kids were young and we lived closer, but now the long drive /plane ride is not worth it. We attend the early service at our own church locally and then treat it like any other Sunday.

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I thought you should know

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OP here -- Our Easter plan now includes seeing the bluebells at River Bend park! Thanks for that great suggestion as well as the other posts. For those who are surprised that our kids aren't coming home, I'd just say that while we're a close-knit family and are churchgoers, it's sometimes simply not possible for college students and older adult kids to make it home for a holiday. The distance might be too far or school and work schedules might not permit them to travel. We feel fortunate to have seen all four kids two weeks ago for a family event. That's like an Easter miracle when you have one on the west coast, one in medical residency and two who are college students and athletes attending school out of state!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here -- Our Easter plan now includes seeing the bluebells at River Bend park! Thanks for that great suggestion as well as the other posts. For those who are surprised that our kids aren't coming home, I'd just say that while we're a close-knit family and are churchgoers, it's sometimes simply not possible for college students and older adult kids to make it home for a holiday. The distance might be too far or school and work schedules might not permit them to travel. We feel fortunate to have seen all four kids two weeks ago for a family event. That's like an Easter miracle when you have one on the west coast, one in medical residency and two who are college students and athletes attending school out of state!

Your Easter plans should include learning to communicate without bragging about your children. I can see why no one invites you to do things with them.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here -- Our Easter plan now includes seeing the bluebells at River Bend park! Thanks for that great suggestion as well as the other posts. For those who are surprised that our kids aren't coming home, I'd just say that while we're a close-knit family and are churchgoers, it's sometimes simply not possible for college students and older adult kids to make it home for a holiday. The distance might be too far or school and work schedules might not permit them to travel. We feel fortunate to have seen all four kids two weeks ago for a family event. That's like an Easter miracle when you have one on the west coast, one in medical residency and two who are college students and athletes attending school out of state!

Your Easter plans should include learning to communicate without bragging about your children. I can see why no one invites you to do things with them.

+1,000

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Anonymous wrote:Also they would hand just gotten back from the 2k spring break travel you paid for

I was instate 70 miles from home and didn’t ever travel for spring break (and my parents would not have paid if I did) and I always went home for all holidays, major or minor.

So what? OP is having her first empty nester Easter. She is looking for restaurant suggestions. She does not care to hear what other people did for their Easter eons ago.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here -- Our Easter plan now includes seeing the bluebells at River Bend park! Thanks for that great suggestion as well as the other posts. For those who are surprised that our kids aren't coming home, I'd just say that while we're a close-knit family and are churchgoers, it's sometimes simply not possible for college students and older adult kids to make it home for a holiday. The distance might be too far or school and work schedules might not permit them to travel. We feel fortunate to have seen all four kids two weeks ago for a family event. That's like an Easter miracle when you have one on the west coast, one in medical residency and two who are college students and athletes attending school out of state!

Your Easter plans should include learning to communicate without bragging about your children. I can see why no one invites you to do things with them.

Gosh are you sensitive! OP is probably just proud, as she rightly should be.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- Our Easter plan now includes seeing the bluebells at River Bend park! Thanks for that great suggestion as well as the other posts. For those who are surprised that our kids aren't coming home, I'd just say that while we're a close-knit family and are churchgoers, it's sometimes simply not possible for college students and older adult kids to make it home for a holiday. The distance might be too far or school and work schedules might not permit them to travel. We feel fortunate to have seen all four kids two weeks ago for a family event. That's like an Easter miracle when you have one on the west coast, one in medical residency and two who are college students and athletes attending school out of state!

Your Easter plans should include learning to communicate without bragging about your children. I can see why no one invites you to do things with them.

Gosh are you sensitive! OP is probably just proud, as she rightly should be.

No. She’s a humblebrag! She could easily say her young adult kids in schools live on different coasts.

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No. She’s a humblebrag! She could easily say her young adult kids in schools live on different coasts.

NP. You sound insecure and angry. Now it's a humblebrag to report facts? She has a kid in residency and two in college - stating that is hardly bragging.

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No. She’s a humblebrag! She could easily say her young adult kids in schools live on different coasts.

You could have easily kept your judgmental and critical opinions to yourself.

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Just here to say I'm super jealous -- just had to wrangle my toddler whose daycare was closed. Thankfully it's a shorter spring break than public schools but I long for the quiet bliss of empty nest.

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Anonymous wrote:Also they would hand just gotten back from the 2k spring break travel you paid for

I was instate 70 miles from home and didn’t ever travel for spring break (and my parents would not have paid if I did) and I always went home for all holidays, major or minor.

So what? OP is having her first empty nester Easter. She is looking for restaurant suggestions. She does not care to hear what other people did for their Easter eons ago.

PP was replying to the part of the conversation about whether college students come home for Easter. Do try to keep up, especially if you're going to be a snarky biotch.

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OP was simply answering the poster who was commenting that Easter is a sacred holiday. My kid, who lives an 8 hour drive away, won't be home for Easter either.