Great idea! It takes time to fill the void, but eventually you realize you're mostly free to do your own thing and the void gets filled pretty quickly with all those things you wanted to do! If nothing else the "flexibility" one learns from following their child through baseball is put to use as new adventures await. We moved from NH to NC and now to FL to live 6 blocks from the beach, but also have a place in NC as our hurricane escape plan and for our youngest to have somewhere to call home while he starts his life after baseball and lack of desire to finish his degree. Our oldest got married last year and now they're making us g-parents in Nov. Middle son is a lawyer in Charlotte and recently engaged (planning wedding #2 for next Dec.). In between all that, just when we thought we were going to be able to do whatever, whenever - last summer I found a biological brother through Ancestry (both of us were adopted after being taken away from the parents in different parts of the country). Spent some time getting to know him and his family and vice versa. This year we're going to Paris/Lyon for a 10 days followed by time in Boston with a grandchild. Who knew, life just goes on and it moves fast just like Ferris Bueller said it would.