Since my kids are not traveling – other than to get home – for the holiday weekend, we are having a huge family gathering tonight at my house. All six kids will be here. Susan will be bringing her roommate, Margie. Ben is bringing his girlfriend, Liz. The kids’ dad is bring his girlfriend, Regina,… Continue reading Holiday Weekend
How far do you push others to do what you think is “the right thing?” You may think this is a huge ethics question. It can be, that is for sure. Not this time, though. This time it is all about family. My ex’s mother was admitted to a hospital earlier this week for congestive… Continue reading How Far Do You Push?
One of the main reasons I like working from home is that I can make our evening meal for whatever time is necessary. I like us all to eat together. This means sitting down to dinner together as the boys don’t both eat breakfast at home. Teenagers prefer sleep over food at some times of… Continue reading The Winter Sports Season Dinner Time
Okay, I am not talking about the electronic device. I am talking about public displays of affection. When in high school – eons ago, I sat on a school district committee that developed a policy on PDA in the district where I attended school. It basically said what was and wasn’t okay at different age… Continue reading What’s Your Opinion of PDA in schools?
It is fall! \’Nuf said. I have been off apple picking! My 20 year old daughter is home for her only real visit for the fall semester. She will be home right before Thanksgiving but she is bringing a gang with her for a concert. This is she and mom time. We went apple picking… Continue reading Apple Picking
My oldest daughter has always been a homebody. She love college life, though, and Niagara in particular. This past summer she stayed up there for the summer working. Summer work is hard to find in our area and what she was doing up there paid more. Anyway, she was home for three weekends all summer… Continue reading My Daughter’s Visiting
My sister and I are two years apart in age. We are closer to millenia apart in how we live and where we prefer to live. She left the area where we grew up about five years after college. She lived in the San Jose, CA area for ten years or so. Then, she lived… Continue reading Road Trip Number One
After yesterday, the house is in desperate need of attention. My son is bringing home his girlfriend this weekend. While this is not a new concept for me – my oldest brought home a couple girls from college, this is new in a way. It is the first time he has brought home a girl… Continue reading Cleaning Up
I swear there should be a word like blog that is for the times – in this particular case, summer – when you have tons going through your head and on in your life but don’t blog about any of it. I haven’t put fingers to keys in a blogging manner in two weeks. In… Continue reading Summer Blogging
Yes, I have previously let my oldest son “entertain” or “host” a sibling but the first time I did this, he was living in a dorm room and his sister was looking at the college he went to. He didn’t do the actually rooming with him but found a female friend for her to stay… Continue reading A New Part of Parenting
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