October 21, 2024 • 8 mins
Kids heading out the door to greet their new lives without you? Letting go is so hard! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. Through There is
a wonderful old book called the Book of Ecclesiastes, and
(00:23):
in it there is a poem that says, for everything,
there is a season and a time for every purpose
under heaven. And we go through seasons in life. There's
a season when you find out you're expecting, and there's
all the excitement and the anticipation of meeting this little life.
(00:47):
There's the season of exhaustion when the little life is
here and you forget what sleep feels like because never
again do you sleep eight hours.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And there's so.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Many seas in our life, especially as a parent, and
there's a song for every season. There really is, I
know because I have played them through all the seasons
of my life and all the seasons of my parenting.
But the season that I dislike the most is the
season of letting go, when your babies are no longer
(01:22):
babies and they're ready to spread their wings and fly
out of the nest. I'm so proud of my kids
when they reached that season in their life, and I
hate it simultaneously, pride and joy mixed with longing and
looking back at yesteryear and wondering where the years have gone. Hi,
(01:48):
good evening, you've called the Delilah show. Who is with
me on the phone lines?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
This is Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hi Georgia. I have a granddaughter named Georgia. Ah love
that name. Love the song Rainy Nights and Georgia. What
can I do for you, my darling?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I have lots of love, but I also want to
send some love to my daughter. She's graduating this year.
I kind of have that emptiness syndrome going on because
she's graduating and moving out and one to college.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Ooh, the empty nest syndrome is coming up quickly.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That's a real thing. So if I could play her
a song, that would be great. If you could pick
out something for her, I.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Will find you something wonderful. You have a great night.
What's your daughter's name, Madison.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
She's gotten a job, she's doing her things. He does.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I know they're doing exactly what they are supposed to
be doing and what we raise them to do, and
it hurts so bad once they do that.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Have lots of love, though, but you know, just that
kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right, you share that love with her, and I
will play.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
A song for you a good night.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Thank you so much, Elisa. Yes, there's the little one
I hear in the background.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, that's Mary Catherine.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And how old is Mary Catherine?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
She's eighteen months?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Congratulations?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What do you want to tell me tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I have a.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Nineteen year old daughter and her dad and I got
divorced when she was two, so I have raised her
alone for these seventeen years, and she has transferred to
college far away, and I just wanted to find a
song for her. She has just been weird, exceptionally close.
(03:42):
She's just everything to me, and when she left for college,
she took a huge part of me with her and
we do talk every day. But I just wanted to
find a song for her to let her know how
special she is to me.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
And what's her name, Brittany? So Brittany is away at
school too far away? Yeah, And you never knew silence
could be so deafening.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh it kills me.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It just kills me.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now, is this little one yours? Or is this uh?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
You're watching a baby les mine from a second marriage.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So you've got the daughter that's grown and gone.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
And one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And a one year old. Good good.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I just say, God knows I can only do one
thing at a time.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So wow.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, Well, hopefully the joy of that baby's face can
can ease a little bit of the pain of not
having your other baby.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Next she does, and she misses her big sister so
much too. So we're right here together.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I will play a great song for you and for
both of your girls.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Bye bye, Hi Patricia, how are you tonight?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I'm kind of sad. Why my twenty two year olds?
I went to boot camp last week?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh that's the reason to be very sad.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, and I'm missing him. I just I love him
because that's my only child.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
What's his name? And he went to boot camp? So
what branch of the service? And what does he want
to study while he's in the navy?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Good for him, Yes, but that doesn't make your mama's
heart any lass miss missing him an he last?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Does it?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
No? And I've been trying so long to get you.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Well, I'm glad you made it through tonight. Did you
have a song on your heart for your baby boy?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
No? No, I don't. I love music I really love music.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I've been listening to your show since he was much younger.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yes, when he was your little baby.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yes, when he was my little baby.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
All right, I'll play a song to bring back those memories.
Do not whatever you do, mom, Do not get the
photo albums out. Okay, do not go there. Do not
open the photo albums. Do not look at his first
day of school pictures. Do not do that to yourself. Okay, Okay,
you have a good night, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Susan, this is Deliinah.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Is the question.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm feeling melancholy. I missed my kids.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Why do you miss your little ones?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh? They all moved out.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Okay, so they're not little anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah. My daughter, well one's fourteen, but he's still not little.
My two oldest children went into the Marine Corps, my
daughter and my son. They're nineteen and eighteen. They moved
out of state, and then my youngest son moved in
with his dad to finish high school.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
So you got an empty nest there, Susan. Yeah, you've
been cooking for the whole family all these years, trying
to figure out how to stretch a pound of Hamburger
and now you've got food rotting in the refrigerator exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But that is the benny of it. We do have
really awesome meals now. I do cook quite a bit
now just for you, for you and my husband.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And your husband.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And he's awesome also. I mean, I've really been really
blessed in my life with a really wonderful family all
the way around.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So do you find that the romance is sort of
picking up now that the kids are gone?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Most definitely.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Yeah, And you're able to do things with hobby that
you weren't able to do with three kids underfoot, right right,
A little slow dance now and again.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
A lot of slow dance now and again, a lot
of tasting each other around the house.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Ah, so you're feeling you are you feeling like a
teenager again here?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah? In that sense, most definitely.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So an empty nest isn't exactly that bad.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Well, it's when he goes to sleep that it really
hits me because I used to lay with my kids
before they went to sleep and we talked about their day,
and you know, it was we were really close, very
very close. Well we still are.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
So Mom's a little lonely Yeah, but mom's getting a
little more loving than she had before.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, a different kind.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Let me find a song for you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'll share more with you each weekday on Hey It's
Delilah to
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. Through There is
a wonderful old book called the Book of Ecclesiastes, and
(00:23):
in it there is a poem that says, for everything,
there is a season and a time for every purpose
under heaven. And we go through seasons in life. There's
a season when you find out you're expecting, and there's
all the excitement and the anticipation of meeting this little life.
(00:47):
There's the season of exhaustion when the little life is
here and you forget what sleep feels like because never
again do you sleep eight hours.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And there's so.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Many seas in our life, especially as a parent, and
there's a song for every season. There really is, I
know because I have played them through all the seasons
of my life and all the seasons of my parenting.
But the season that I dislike the most is the
season of letting go, when your babies are no longer
(01:22):
babies and they're ready to spread their wings and fly
out of the nest. I'm so proud of my kids
when they reached that season in their life, and I
hate it simultaneously, pride and joy mixed with longing and
looking back at yesteryear and wondering where the years have gone. Hi,
(01:48):
good evening, you've called the Delilah show. Who is with
me on the phone lines?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
This is Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hi Georgia. I have a granddaughter named Georgia. Ah love
that name. Love the song Rainy Nights and Georgia. What
can I do for you, my darling?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I have lots of love, but I also want to
send some love to my daughter. She's graduating this year.
I kind of have that emptiness syndrome going on because
she's graduating and moving out and one to college.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Ooh, the empty nest syndrome is coming up quickly.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That's a real thing. So if I could play her
a song, that would be great. If you could pick
out something for her, I.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Will find you something wonderful. You have a great night.
What's your daughter's name, Madison.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
She's gotten a job, she's doing her things. He does.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I know they're doing exactly what they are supposed to
be doing and what we raise them to do, and
it hurts so bad once they do that.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Have lots of love, though, but you know, just that
kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right, you share that love with her, and I
will play.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
A song for you a good night.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Thank you so much, Elisa. Yes, there's the little one
I hear in the background.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, that's Mary Catherine.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And how old is Mary Catherine?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
She's eighteen months?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Congratulations?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What do you want to tell me tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I have a.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Nineteen year old daughter and her dad and I got
divorced when she was two, so I have raised her
alone for these seventeen years, and she has transferred to
college far away, and I just wanted to find a
song for her. She has just been weird, exceptionally close.
(03:42):
She's just everything to me, and when she left for college,
she took a huge part of me with her and
we do talk every day. But I just wanted to
find a song for her to let her know how
special she is to me.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
And what's her name, Brittany? So Brittany is away at
school too far away? Yeah, And you never knew silence
could be so deafening.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh it kills me.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It just kills me.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now, is this little one yours? Or is this uh?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
You're watching a baby les mine from a second marriage.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So you've got the daughter that's grown and gone.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
And one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And a one year old. Good good.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I just say, God knows I can only do one
thing at a time.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So wow.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, Well, hopefully the joy of that baby's face can
can ease a little bit of the pain of not
having your other baby.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Next she does, and she misses her big sister so
much too. So we're right here together.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I will play a great song for you and for
both of your girls.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Bye bye, Hi Patricia, how are you tonight?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I'm kind of sad. Why my twenty two year olds?
I went to boot camp last week?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh that's the reason to be very sad.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, and I'm missing him. I just I love him
because that's my only child.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
What's his name? And he went to boot camp? So
what branch of the service? And what does he want
to study while he's in the navy?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Good for him, Yes, but that doesn't make your mama's
heart any lass miss missing him an he last?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Does it?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
No? And I've been trying so long to get you.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Well, I'm glad you made it through tonight. Did you
have a song on your heart for your baby boy?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
No? No, I don't. I love music I really love music.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I've been listening to your show since he was much younger.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yes, when he was your little baby.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yes, when he was my little baby.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
All right, I'll play a song to bring back those memories.
Do not whatever you do, mom, Do not get the
photo albums out. Okay, do not go there. Do not
open the photo albums. Do not look at his first
day of school pictures. Do not do that to yourself. Okay, Okay,
you have a good night, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Susan, this is Deliinah.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Is the question.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm feeling melancholy. I missed my kids.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Why do you miss your little ones?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh? They all moved out.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Okay, so they're not little anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah. My daughter, well one's fourteen, but he's still not little.
My two oldest children went into the Marine Corps, my
daughter and my son. They're nineteen and eighteen. They moved
out of state, and then my youngest son moved in
with his dad to finish high school.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
So you got an empty nest there, Susan. Yeah, you've
been cooking for the whole family all these years, trying
to figure out how to stretch a pound of Hamburger
and now you've got food rotting in the refrigerator exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But that is the benny of it. We do have
really awesome meals now. I do cook quite a bit
now just for you, for you and my husband.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And your husband.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And he's awesome also. I mean, I've really been really
blessed in my life with a really wonderful family all
the way around.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So do you find that the romance is sort of
picking up now that the kids are gone?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Most definitely.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Yeah, And you're able to do things with hobby that
you weren't able to do with three kids underfoot, right right,
A little slow dance now and again.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
A lot of slow dance now and again, a lot
of tasting each other around the house.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Ah, so you're feeling you are you feeling like a
teenager again here?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah? In that sense, most definitely.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So an empty nest isn't exactly that bad.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Well, it's when he goes to sleep that it really
hits me because I used to lay with my kids
before they went to sleep and we talked about their day,
and you know, it was we were really close, very
very close. Well we still are.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
So Mom's a little lonely Yeah, but mom's getting a
little more loving than she had before.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, a different kind.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Let me find a song for you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'll share more with you each weekday on Hey It's
Delilah to
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