Rob Fox
It’s hard to know for sure what the best moment of being a parent is if you don’t have children yourself. When they’re born? First steps? First words? Playing catch? Teaching them how to ride a bike? Some little moment? An empty nest’ phase? Which phase of life? Hard to say. It’s all subjective anyway.
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I, thankfully, do not yet have children. I have no idea what the best moment is. But oh man, the day they’re finally gone, the day I become an empty nester has got to be pretty cool.
It’s not that I wouldn’t love parenting. Of course I would love it. But 18 years plus summers and Christmas breaks and, if we’re being realistic, probably a year or two after college, is a real long ass time, even down to the last kid. Thinking about that over here on front end of freedom makes me think that by the time I reach the back end I am going to be extremely ready to start drinking so many margaritas on a Friday night, in my family home, that I wake up Saturday afternoon with no idea how I got on the couch or why I’m covered in Taco Bell.
All of that is to say that these empty nesters who did a hilarious photo shoot to celebrate them once again having an empty nest after their favorite kids went off to college is both understandable and wonderful. A+ work mom and dad. I aspire to this level of trolling my future children. I just hope my future 22-year-old daughter will hang up these kinds of photos of her parents.
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As the mom, Vicky Piper, explained to People, her two last children went off college so she had a typical mom’s idea. She and her husband Jeff (finally empty nesters) quickly grabbed a camera and thought the empty nest’ photo shoot would be funny. They had an empty nester photo shoot holding up funny signs as if they were revealing a pregnancy announcement. They also thought no one else would really care or find it funny.
This hilarious photo shoot announced the arrival of empty nesters, signifying a new phase of life for these parents.: the empty nest’ phase. 44,000 shares on the Facebook page later and the thing has gone supernova viral on social media. It really just goes to show that trolling your children is never not hilarious to everyone and the fastest way to start trending. Maybe a photography business for empty nesters is a better idea than we expected.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on August 17, 2018.
