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It Gets So Quiet So Fast
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| December 13, 2013
| Mona Charen
Posted on 12/13/2013 8:26:08 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:26:08 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
What a BUNCH of “Suburbanite” TRIPE! “Collage” MY A$$!
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:31:31 AM PST
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: Kaslin
It gets pretty noisy when the grandkids come along, says the guy babysitting grandbabies today.
/johnny
To: US Navy Vet
Yeah it get’s REAL quiet when sons(REAL MEN) go off to WAR and NEVER come back. REAL QUIET! COLLEGE MY A$$!
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:37:30 AM PST
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: US Navy Vet
Are you saying her kids shouldn’t go to college? I think that’s your meaning, but I’m not sure.
To: JRandomFreeper
It gets pretty noisy when the grandkids come along, says the guy babysitting grandbabies today. So long as you are lucky enough to have them that close.
Congratulations (and I mean it). Teach them well.
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:40:22 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
To: JRandomFreeper
It gets pretty noisy when the grandkids come along, says the guy babysitting grandbabies today.It's great, isn't it? My work schedule allows me every other Monday off, and I use that day to babysit my 3 YO grandson. I'd like to think we do a good job of wearing each other out.
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:41:59 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: Kaslin
"Our house is as quiet as a tomb." So said a friend who's at the same stage of life -- that is, a mother of three with only one child still living at home. Her youngest, unlike mine, is an introvert, but like my Ben, he is exceedingly busy in his last years of high school, thus leaving the house echoing with emptiness. Great read. I know a married couple that are exactly where this writer's friend is at.
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:42:38 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Kaslin
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:44:32 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Kaslin
A beautiful essay by Charen. I’ve often wondered about her child who was hit by a car. It sounds like he still has difficulties, but is mastering them slowly.
To: Carry_Okie
So long as you are lucky enough to have them that close. Very true...I can't imagine not being near my grandson. Last night, we had him over for a few hours, the first time I'd seen him in nearly 3 weeks.
Prior to that, he spent 4 weekends in a row with us. Don't get me wrong, I love the kid to death, but that was a bit much. 3 year old boys require non-stop supervision, which is usually left up to me...my wife always has "errands to run" on the weekend...lol.
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:47:21 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: Kaslin
My house has been quite for several years now. I do very much miss kids in school type activities. I miss freezing my butt off in the bleachers at the start of track season. I miss the basketball tournaments on Saturdays and the road trips.
Yes, it’s quite all except the the scrapes of the long out grown turtle that is a living remnant of a child’s youth and the chirping of a bird that needs to stay with me while finials are being dealt with....
My last one graduates tomorrow at 2:00 after that, I will be officially OLD.
enjoy’em while you got’em
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:50:42 AM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: Kaslin; All
My little 4-year old will be heading for college in 2027. I’ll be 80, my wife 73, God willing. We’ll miss her terribly...
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:52:00 AM PST
by
mozarky2
(Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
To: Night Hides Not
3 year old boys require non-stop supervision, Spoken like a woman. Actually, to allow them to get into a limited amount of "trouble" is to teach them what it is to be free. "Non-stop supervision," is prepping them for a nanny state. The line is fine, but it is important.
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posted on
12/13/2013 8:55:45 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
To: Carry_Okie
I’m teaching them well. It’s the imptomptu physics experiments that drive my daughter nutz. ;)
/johnny
To: Kaslin
Once we didn’t have kids in the house we decided one day to eat nothing but apple pie and ice cream. It was great fun!
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posted on
12/13/2013 9:03:57 AM PST
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Carry_Okie
He gets plenty of freedom, moreso now that he can get up and down the stairs expertly.
And I go by the name, "Opa"! lol
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posted on
12/13/2013 9:08:19 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: Kaslin
Very much like a page from this persons diary. Nostalgia? Yeah!
Thoughtful and contemplative.
Likely the difference between men and women or parents is apparent.
I liked it,
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posted on
12/13/2013 9:14:20 AM PST
by
geologist
("If you love me, keep my commands" .... John 14 :15)
To: mozarky2
My little 4-year old will be heading for college in 2027. I’ll be 80, my wife 73, God willing.I gather that your child was adopted.
I didn't know that the adoption agencies would allow people in their sixties to adopt.
Regards,
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posted on
12/13/2013 9:14:21 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Doctor 2Brains
It is the author's chance to write about how much time she spends thinking about herself and how she expects the whole world revolve around her.
Like Miss Piggy..."But what about me?"
Just my opinion.
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posted on
12/13/2013 9:17:00 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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