kids came home on break, i realized how willing i was to give up all the freedom and simple living just to have them home. with all the noise. and all their crap. and the constant flow of friends in and out of the house. because when they came back, they came back as different people. now they had a new appreciation for us as parents and as people because they experienced the other side of what it’s like to manage their own lives. it was like, all of a sudden, they appreciated my cooking a little more and how clean the house was compared to a dorm room and 