My youngest successfully boarded last night and is now officially an Eagle. Though I'm proud of him, it made me a little blue. He graduated high school on May 19th (his 18th Birthday isn't for about three weeks) and almost immediately started a summer school program at the college he's attending this Fall. This Eagle Scout pretty well closed the chapter on his childhood with (to me anyway) rather surprising finality.
My oldest graduated high school last year and shipped out for the Marine Corps the very next morning, so the empty nest thing hits kind of hard. The good news is, this one is in school only about 40 miles away for now, so it isn't like we'll never see him.
Don't want to come across as beating my chest, but I raised two pretty good sons if I do say so myself. Now that I'm teaching high school, I'm seeing some really shocking examples sometimes of what parenting or the lack thereof results in sometimes. The wife and I are feeling pretty good about ourselves.