The quiet, the reduced grocery bills, hearing their voice less and less, seeing their face and life change in 2 or 3 months increments when they come home for visits. All of these may, at first, sound like a vacation from the stress from being a parent but when it actually happens and the day finally comes when your son or daughters daily annoying habit (Always leaving a half finished glass of milk on the counter or their towel on the floor in the bathroom) is no longer there it will finally hit you like a wave.