Child #3 has been safely dropped off at college. Knowing how close we have been through the past 18 years of his life while I changed his wet backside, drove him all over hell’s half acre, nursed him through illness and operations, blah, blah, blah, I was sure he’d keep me well informed as he [...]
Entries from August 2009
The Silent Treatment
August 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: Moms
How to Tick Off Your Wife of 29 Years
August 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
My husband is the kind that can’t sit still. I can sit still for hours. In his quest to keep busy, he found some fantastically loaded elderberry bushes, plucked them clean and brought home the fruits of his hunting and gathering expedition in the back field. Sidebar – In the days before his chlosterol went sky [...]
Tags: Life Observations · Mates
Here’s Looking At You, Kid
August 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Today was party day and the Megastation was fabulous in the pool. The 87 degree day was made to order. All of the kids were home and the cousins arrived so we donned our suits and had a great meal with the two “college kids to be” before they go off. It was pretty typical [...]
Drowning My Sorrows
August 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Sixteen days and counting. The last child leaves home for college at the end of this countdown. In an effort to do my best about not whining about how much I don’t want an empty nest, I have decided to host a Mega Party next weekend. This consists of putting my celebrated Megastation into our [...]
Tags: Kids
This Marriage Might Just Work
August 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments
Yesterday was our wedding anniversary and I will tell you how many years but first I must explain that I was a child bride, or that what people seem to think, and I am OK with that. 29 years. And I wasn’t really that young, but we joke about it because apparently I look somewhat [...]
Tags: Mates
