The New Hobbit Hole

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sneak for the precious....

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Sorry...didn't mean to over due... excess in victory is never good...

[Corin Stormhands]

Hand over the ring, you'll feel better (I wasn't even paying attention...)

[ksen]

I'm thinking they'll do enough of a make-up job that he won't look too much like Saruman or Count Dooku...

Count Poopoo? What kind of name is that? I'm telling you, I think Lucas is losing it the older he gets.............what was that?...........Dooku?........Oh...nevermind.

[Corin Stormhands]

I think Lucas is losing it the older he gets.............

I was practically in tears at the Yoda/Saruman fight scene...(I think I've said that here before, even recently...)

[ksen]

Do you think lembas are anything like arapas?

Sam, you're still not sure what Lembas are? Bless your heart, the ladies discussed this to DEATH a while back. ;^)

[Sam Cree]

"Elves....Orcs....what's the difference?"

Orcs...they were elves once...

[ksen]

I think I've said that here before, even recently...

That's ok, it bears repeating, the oftener the better.

[Corin Stormhands]

That's ok, it bears repeating...

Jr. is looking forward to the DVD...sigh...

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, my mother was cheerful, like you. She buzzed around the house and hummed and acted like nothing was wrong, and made us happy. We knew when there was a dark cloud over Dad, but it wasn't fear. He never lifted a hand, but he might be sullen for days for reasons we didn't understand.

But they divorced, when I was about 14, so I am not sure I have a mature perspective on what their dynamic really was when they were together. But we were happy kids, and we loved our dad, though I know I carried more worry than my brother. I spent time living with each of them back and forth as a teen, my brother being away at college most of the time by then.

Around my Dad I was (still am) the sweeper that was always looking ahead to avoid upsets, and my brother became like my Mom, I guess... pretty unaffected by it. Dad's sulking never bothered him. He didn't assume it was about him, the way I did, and when I tried to talk to brother about it, he would tell me not to worry about it... Which drove me nuts.

Dad decided on the divorce, not my Mom. She told me she never would have left him. I for one, think it turned out for the best for her, and maybe for him.

She met and married a wonderful man afterwards, an optimist that loved to party and travel as much as my Mom. And he allowed her to live with Cancer the way she wanted to. Buzzing around and pretending it wasn't there. They went on a trip weekend before she died. My Dad, for all his wonderful aspects, would have been utterly consumed with dread that she was dying and how bad it was gonna be, and that would have been a tragedy, knowing now how lucky she was to have found Frank. She would not have had as good an end to her life with my Dad. I love my Dad, and he is the guy you want to call when something that can be fixed goes wrong. But not when it can't be fixed. That consumes him. Does that make sense?

Your boys will become a mix I think... My brother and I are. I am more like my Dad than my brother is, worrying about the worst thing happening all the time, and my brother turned out more like my Mom I think. But both of us picked up parts of their temperments.

My Dad did not have God... Still doesn't really. So Steve has that going for him. You both have that going for your marriage. My mother was the one to bring us to church, but Dad felt no need for it.

[HairOfTheDog]

My biggest fear was that my brother would become Dad... thinking that is how men are... Funny thing, that I became more like Dad than he did.

[Sam Cree]

I'm sad hearing about you guys, but glad, I think, that you'll stick it out.

There was a time in our 28 year marriage when my wife and I both thought we wanted out of it, maybe what saved it is that neither of us wanted to be blamed for ending it + I guess more importantly, we never stopped being in love with each other.

Anyway, we managed to work it through and these days, and it's been many years now, we have felt like newlweds again, we are so happy and feel so lucky.

It's funny, I have always been kind of a dark and brooding person while Jeanne is more like you, very bubbly, cheerful and outgoing. But somehow, after all these years, I've gotten pretty cheerful myself, so anything can happen I guess.

Anwyay, all the best for you and your beautiful family, everyone here thinks you're one of the best hobbits, your presence adds so much to the hole and everywhere else you go, I'm sure.

[2Jedismom]

Thanks so much for sharing that with me. I am encouraged to not give up on him, but yet not let him drag me down either. The kids think I'm the funniest mom and they laugh a lot. My goal is to keep it that way.

[Corin Stormhands]

There was a time in our 28 year marriage when my wife and I both thought we wanted out of it...

My wife and I tell people we've been married 16 years...12 of them good ones...