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Reconnect With Yourself: Fashion Advice For Empty Nester Moms

If you were a Mom who worked outside the home while raising your kids, you likely kept up with fashion trends to dress professionally for work. If you were a stay-at-home Mom who loved fashion, you probably did the same. Then there are the Moms who traded in The 9-5 to be a stay-at-home Mom....

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Reconnect With Yourself: Easy Ways To Get Back Into Fitness

If you were like most busy Moms, between taking care of the kids, cooking, cleaning, caring for pets, and maybe even working The 9-5, you hardly had any time left for exercise. Now with an empty nest, you have more time and you’re looking for some easy ways to reconnect with fitness. This page may...

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Reconnect With Yourself: Time To Focus On Your Health

As a mom who took care of everybody else for so many years, your health may have been pushed by the wayside. If so, it’s time to make your health a top priority, which is an important part of reconnecting with yourself. Why Should Empty Nester Moms Focus on Their Health? Full Disclaimer: I am...

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Reconnect With Yourself: Affordable Self-Care/Beauty Tips And Products

Some moms may have kept up with all things self-care and beauty while they were busy raising their kids; others may not have given it top priority. If the latter sounds like you, now that you’re an Empty Nester Mom, you have more time to concentrate on YOU! Maybe you’re not used to spending a...

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Reconnect With Your Spouse: 9 Helpful Ways To Survive The Empty Nest

For some couples, the Empty Nest can be a trigger for relationship problems. While this should be a happy time, the transition to the Empty Nest is full of mixed emotions! Suddenly there’s a big void that neither party really knows how to fill. You’re likely happy about more time and freedom, but sad because...

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Reconnect With Your Friends: How Many And What Types Are Best?

It takes a long time to make old friends, and for some of us, it can be really hard to make new ones, especially as we get older. As an Empty Nester Mom who suddenly finds herself with more alone time, it’s time to rekindle those old friendships that may have been tossed aside during...

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Empty Nester Boating: How To Launch A New Life Together

Empty nesting can be a big life transition, but it’s also the perfect opportunity for couples to rediscover each other. By reminiscing about fun things you used to do, and talking about new things you’d like to try, you’re on your way to creating the best chapter of your lives! Boating, and all the fun...

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Empty Nester Crabbing: How To Rediscover Your Greatest Catch

As an Empty Nester Mom, you’re suddenly faced with an empty house and a blank calendar. This can leave you feeling a bit disoriented, as your entire daily routine has forever changed! Aside from reconnecting with yourself, it’s also time to reconnect with your spouse. You know, your greatest catch—the guy who’s always been there...

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Empty Nester Fishing: How To Get Hooked On Each Other Again

If fishing was something you and your husband did together before having kids, or if it’s something you’ve always wanted to get into, now’s the time to get into it! Fishing Together Is An Easy, Low-Key Activity For Reconnecting After Empty Nesting! Fishing was one of the activities that my husband, Pete, and I did...

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Empty Nester Shrimping: Little Things To Help You Reconnect

Finding new things to do together as Empty Nesters is good for your relationship. Sometimes even little things can make a big difference…such as a day of catching those little shrimp together! Shrimping together is great for reconnecting after empty nesting! Have you always wanted to get into boating and shrimping? If so, we’ve got...

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