The Loud Quiet - Empty Nest Living

Clancy and Rick will recap the Holiday season with both kids being back in the house. We both agree this season was so much fun with no high school stuff controlling our schedules. Our New Year’s Eve was an obvious contrast with Tanner’s. You'll see why in the text (picture) of the week. #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitionto...

What do Fridays mean to you? How have Fridays changed over the stages of life?  We discuss four different phases and how Fridays have changed for us in each one.  👀Watch for the surprise guest this week

Rick and Clancy talk us through some of their favorite and their family’s favorite Christmas movies. Shocker that they heavily fall in the comedic category and one may be a surprising choice for some. Text is from Tanner #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitiontoanemptynest #Parentingjourney #Reinventingourselves #Newchapterinlife #E...

We’ve been at this empty nester thing for one semester (using our college kids’ calendar). Clancy takes us through an article of the Top 30 Best Empty Nester Date ideas she found with some good and not so good ideas for empty nester dates. 🤣Laugh with us as we discuss all and discard some. Text is from Teagan Top 30 Empty Nester Date Ideas: https://www.thedatingdivas.com/30-fun-exciting-date-idea...

We had a great time celebrating the week of Thanksgiving in Arizona. As always...lots of fun with the kids and their friends. 🏈Tons of football, 🍗food and no one threw any 👊punches during Phase 10. So glad that BiBi and PopPop could join us-even though one of them always cheats-listen to find out which one.

Holidays look a little different as empty nesters. Hear what we did for Halloween and how we are changing things up for Thanksgiving. Text is from Teagan and shows how different college is for these kiddos. #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitiontoanemptynest #Parentingjourney #Reinventingourselves #Newchapterinlife #Emptynestchalle...

How do we help our kids through disappointment with distance in between What’s our role with adult children and how do we deal with the new roles/boundaries? Giving them a virtual hug (gifting money to enjoy the World Series game) and listening are the only things we could do. Text is from Tanner and we tried something new over the weekend. #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNeste...

📺TV is Clancy’s love 😍 language and she’s slowly gotten Rick to come to the dark side. We’ll talk about what we are watching now and discuss a couple of our go to oldies(from the 90s). The proclamation of our undying love of one show could not be more timely. What are you watching? Text of the week is back and comes from Teagan. #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyN...

🚗Take a ride (literally!) with us as we drive down memory lane. Travel has always been important and a necessity for us as a couple. Laugh along with us as we reminisce about our pre kid travels and hear about some LIFE CHANGING decisions that were made on some of those trips. #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitiontoanemptynest #P...

We are so excited to have our friends...who also happen to be our neighbors (16 years and counting)... Jim and Ibby Gill on the show this week. Their episode really could be 3 - so much good insight and info. We’re sure listeners will relate to having... -A successful son who hasn’t left home -Another son who transferred colleges and -Retirement dreams insight. No text of the week this week becaus...

Helping your kids through stormy seas is difficult at any age. Listen to how we discovered our new role co-captain as we assisted Teagan while she navigated through a difficult situation while she’s 1600 miles away from us. Text of the week is between the two kids-very entertaining! #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitiontoanemptyne...

Filming On location! Coming to you from our travels to Arizona in some of the most beautiful parts of the world. We want to share the natural beauty and our experiences that we enjoyed as parents and empty nesters. Travel in the off season IS AWESOME! Reliving the college life with our kiddos is fun and exhausting at the same time.

One last Parents’ Weekend for Tanner…and the first for Teagan. We are so excited to see our kiddos that we left six weeks ago… Listen as we talk about what our expectations are with one place we know very well and one that we are just learning.   We love seeing Tanner’s friends and families. Now we add to this as we are looking forward to meeting Teagan’s new group. How will relationships be diffe...

Ch Ch Ch Changes . We talk with Aeryn and JP Shiffer about bold choices as they enter the empty nest. Selling a house. buying land to build on. And a job change? And they’re only a few weeks into the empty nest!   It was our daughters’ friendship that brought us together and created a lot of living life together over the last four years. So how does the connection stay in place between us and the...

We all carry ideas of what we think stages of life should be or what we want them to be. Listen as we touch on some realistic and unrealistic expectations of the empty nest life. Why can’t we go to Belize on a Wednesday? What’s the S word that everyone thinks about but doesn’t want to talk about? It’s a fun chat delving deeper into our thoughts and Teagan gets the text of the week.

Hear from our first ever guests, Ward and Ashley, as they talk about their experiences as empty nesters of an only child. Listen as Ashley shares her sober journey and the challenges to maintain that through the summer that completely changed her life. We also get a special text of the week from their son. Ashley’s sobriety journey podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YjuPci30XaqNZcD...

Alzheimer's sucks! Our goal is to be transparent with the good times and the bad. Alzheimer’s sucks and we never expected it to affect our immediate family. Listen as Rick gets raw discussing the transition our family has had to go through since his mom was diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago. There will still be laughs, the kid text of the week and a blooper or two. #Alzheimer #austin #relationships #m...

We experienced our first week/weekend as empty nesters. What is routine? How have things stayed the same? How are they different? Where did we spend our first empty nester Saturday and which one of us had a drink named after them ? Join our journey in Episode 3 as we recap the new routine and fun we’ve had...and the “text of the week” from Teagan.

We’re back from Arizona where we have left behind our two most precious items. How many blue bags fit in one car? How many Targets and Walmarts did we visit? What did the Jersey Mike’s guy tell Teagan about Tucson? In Episode 2, listen to the highs and lows of move in weekend and the “text of the week” from Tanner.

When you're less than 7 days from taking your last kid to college, you start to wonder what the empty nest life will be. What are weekends like now? How do we live, not as parents, but as a couple? Who will cry first? Well...we certainly don't know in episode 1...but we're gonna find out. Join Rick and Clancy as we realize that we have a lot to learn about being empty nesters.