The house is for sale. So sad, Family is breaking.

[adinva]

I'm not the best gal-er but here are some things I do when my 12 and 14 year old are safely being supervised by someone else.

I drive an hour to the Appalachian Trail and hike up and down hills for a few hours taking photos.

I practice guitar and singing finally without anyone to tell me I'm embarassing them.

I work out at the gym or go to yoga.

I would really love to use groupon or other travel discounts and go explore overnight out of town, but I haven't had an overnight yet.

I joined meetups for hiking, guitar, and backpacking and hope to schedule some daytrips with these new friends.

It's a short list and not very impressive, but it's an idea of some of the things you might think about scheduling to do when you don't get to be with your girls.

I'm sure there are other interesting things you can do with them too. I took my boys on a cruise, took them to meet a fellow D.B.'er at the beach, I take them out for sushi.

I don't know if your D14 is allergic to hanging out with you like my S14 is sometimes, but I bet you can have some fantastic bonding times with your D10! I like cooking with my kids, and one of the other dads here cooks quite often with his teenage girl.