Posted on 12/29/2003 4:28:03 AM PST by lysie
*shaking head* Some fellas just don't get it!
I used to scream while pointing a vicious finger right under her nose ...
"It is all my fault and don't you forget it!!!!!"
The first time I did it, I got
"Don't you dare talk to .... me .... like................"
Then the meaning set in and she broke up in laughter.
I'm going to slink off and call it a night. God bless us all. Each, and every one.
/john
I may never have grown up. Only the definition of what constitutes a pretty yong damsel has changed. I am getting old. Woman under fifty all look like daughters to me.
I understand. It's not much different for women. When you start noticing the "Eye Candy" and suddenly realize they're all YOUNGER than your children, it's shocking, I tell ya.
Young Daughter is a school teacher who just finished her work on her masters... She gets her master's degree this next month. This fall she also coached a girls volleyball team. She is also about 6 months pregnant and married about a year and a half.
She has a killer schedule and only shows up during school holidays. When she came to see me during her thanksgiving holiday she seemed almost disapointed that I had cleaned the house before she arrived.
She has never totally moved out. Her Doll collection is still in her old room. People look at me strangely when they look at the bedroom across from my office and see a huge collection of Barbie dolls. I feel the need to explain they are not mine.
She will likely show up tomorrow, ready to direct me on what to do to help her clean house. It will be fun for both of us.
I can identify with the horror of seeing a car flip in front of you. When daughter-child was in college, we had gone to get her at the end of a school year and were headed home on the interstate, in two cars (yes, she took that much junk to college with her .... and there was still more left in storage!).
I was driving in the left-hand lane behind a car towing a U-Haul trailer. The small car in the right lane suddenly veered over just enough to barely clip the trailer .... and then to my utter amazement, the trailer tipped to the left and catapulted the car that was pulling it into the air ... yikes!
A thousand thoughts went through my mind in the few seconds that car was doing a barrel roll in front of me. Hubby was driving behind me and I was imagining his horror as he saw all this going on and I was hoping I could get stopped short of the accident without having hubby plow into my car. Everything was in slow motion, or so it seemed.
Amazingly the car did a complete spiral spin and landed upright in the grassy median after a very hard bounce on one side. Hubby and I managed to stop both our cars safely and before I could open my door, hubby was running past me to the wrecked vehicle. In the meantime, daughter-child, in the car with me, had gotten hysterical .... memories of flipping and rolling her own car several years before got the best of her.
Incredibly no one was injured .... the lady in the car had a small cut on her upper arm but that was the worst of it. It was amazing how quickly a crowd gathered and called for help. Hubby helped pry open the jammed door so the poor couple in the car could get out but soon we were on our way again since there was nothing else we could do to help.
It was a very frightening experience .... but at least we didn't follow it up with the broken-airplane delay you had.
Hope your back continues to improve, sweetie. You, and all your family, remain in our prayers!
For several years they went back and forth, a few months at a time, between their two parents. They would resent the rules their father imposed ..... but when they went back to their mother, they found that they didn't really like having such free reign.
Ultimately they all chose to live with their father and his wife .... and ended up being really great kids who grew into very responsible young adults ... who now adore their stepmother. But it was tough for quite a while. The fact that the father and stepmother stuck to their guns and didn't let the kids run wild is what eventually paid off .... and gained not only the kids' love but their respect. Hang in there!
Our corporate office has really ticked me off ..... they are requiring a new format for reports that will mean I have to spend hours re-doing my accounting program and all the memorized invoices before I can prepare the January invoices .... grrrrr!!! I already had plenty to do without adding that to the mix.
Tonight I didn't get home until 11:00 and then spent nearly 3 hours working on re-aligning some stuff in the accounting program .... re-doing the chart of accounts, some payroll items, etc. .... and I still have tons more to do ..... *sigh*
Even if I'm not here chatting, I'm lurking and keeping up .... and I'm keeping all of you in my prayers.
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So glad you're back.
That accident sounded harrowing. Sounds like everyone was ok. Thank God.
We spent more than 7 hours in the Orlando Airport as our morning flight for Milwaukee was delayed until the early evening. Got to see much of the airport.
I like those trams.
Glad you made it back safely.
My Dad once remarked that my mother isn't gone; I'm still here! Seems I get on him just like she did. This Christmas the best present I received was a card just for me exclaiming he doesn't tell me enough how much he loves me and values me as a "friend". The fact that he thinks of me as a friend is the best present ever!
Your daughters are just showing you they are still there for you and love you very much!
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