Screw you, Empty Nest Syndrome!

Jennifer McMann Start Date: Mar 16, 2024 - End Date: Sep 15, 2024
  • South Dakota, United States of America

My Travel Story

by: Jennifer McMann Start Date: Mar 16, 2024 - End Date: Sep 15, 2024
This trip will be the single most important endeavor I will undertake in this lifetime.
I've had four children, whom I nurtured from conception to graduation and eventually getting jobs and moving out onto their own. Anyone with children knows the highs and lows of every phase of their lives. And while them becoming young adults and taking on the role of "responsible part of society", as we all must do makes me proud and so excited for them, it is also a scary time for me.
I spent the last almost three decades pretty much existing just to guide their souls, nurture them in hopes that all of my efforts would create decent, thoughtful people.
The silence bouncing off of the walls that used to shake with laughter and children playing is heartbreaking at times.
I decided very quickly that I had to venture Beyond the boundaries I had created during the family years when I was protector and every move I made was creating a structure that my children were dependent on being stable and just kind of routine.
I recently started school online. I'm studying Christian apologetics. I have a fire for our Creator and I have a yearning to spend time in nature.
I'm going to head to the Black Hills of South Dakota.
I'm going to camp and Prospect for some gold.
Fresh air and the absence of deadlines and demands are the keys to getting  to get to know myself again.
My oldest child, my only son, took his last breath and went home to heaven a few years ago and I don't think my heart has really beat since hearing the news. My three girls have jobs and friends and households and they don't have time for their mom to be moping around.
I've never felt the need to expand my Horizons and spice up my journey like I do right now.
With a little bit of help I could even purchase a little motorhome for me and my three cats too putt around in during the day and at night time settle in our cozy nest safe and warm.
Thank you for taking the time to read my little story and thank you for considering picking me as someone you think would be deserving of blessing.
May God hold you in the palm of his hands.


  • South Dakota, United States of America