Yesterday 9th August 2008 Marco and Atam moved to their own apartment. It is in a small city called San Giovanni in Persicetto, about 20 minutes drive from our house in Bologna. It is a small and nice loft on second floor, with sloping wooden roofs and wooden floor. It has an entrance cum dining room and kitchen, a bedroom and big study-TV room that can also serve as guest room, a big bathroom-toilet.
When children grow up, I guess all parents want to see their children happy and settled in their lives. This is something they have to do and as parents you can stand close, give all encouragement and keep your fingers crossed that it works out. It must be like when mother bird watches baby bird take the first flights.
So an important phase of our life has ended. After marriage, raising up Marco was something that influenced all our lives and took absolute priority over every thing else. Now he is married, both are working, seem happy and in love and finally they are living on their own. Suddenly, we are back to our early marriage days before he was born, without needing to think about raising up family and making plans for future.
For last 7-8 days, they had been taking few things at a time to the new house. Nadia and Atam had been working a lot on cleaning, shopping, etc. Then yesterday they thought that the house was ready for them and so they were off to sleep in their new house. Here are a few pictures from this first day in the new house.
When children grow up, I guess all parents want to see their children happy and settled in their lives. This is something they have to do and as parents you can stand close, give all encouragement and keep your fingers crossed that it works out. It must be like when mother bird watches baby bird take the first flights.
So an important phase of our life has ended. After marriage, raising up Marco was something that influenced all our lives and took absolute priority over every thing else. Now he is married, both are working, seem happy and in love and finally they are living on their own. Suddenly, we are back to our early marriage days before he was born, without needing to think about raising up family and making plans for future.
For last 7-8 days, they had been taking few things at a time to the new house. Nadia and Atam had been working a lot on cleaning, shopping, etc. Then yesterday they thought that the house was ready for them and so they were off to sleep in their new house. Here are a few pictures from this first day in the new house.
