Good morning! Another miserable day here with dreary, foggy, misty, rainy, yucky conditions. Current temp 67* with a high for the day of 80* but no sunshine. OMG I am soooooo sick of rain!
The kids are coming for dinner. Not sure if they want pot pie or chicken and waffles. Need to make a run to the store and don't wanna! Other than that, just hanging at home.
#1 has croup. Seems fine except for that awful cough. Need to get him outside today so he can get his voice back.
The young woman who lived behind us with her son (same age as the boys), husband and twins moved yesterday. We went out to see them off. It is sad, even though her parents still live in the "big" house (she lived in the guest house with her family) and I know they will be back to visit. I suspect the parents, finally empty nesters, will move, too. My next door neighbor has her house up for sale as well, as she has retired and her son moved out (her husband passed away years ago). I am sad because if I do my job right, I know my boys are half way to making me an empty nester as well.
I am enjoying this stage with my kids way more than I thought was possible.
We all enjoy time together, and enjoy time doing our own things.
I woke up feeling pretty good today.
My toe doesn't even hurt.
I'm making ravioli lasagna for lunch.
Have a great day, ya'll.
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FNW, hope #1 gets over the cough fast and it doesn't become something more.
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Won't be much longer she'll be driving, then you won't have to take them.
Have a funnel cake and sit and watch.
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Won't be much longer she'll be driving, then you won't have to take them.
Have a funnel cake and sit and watch.
Sigh I know and then I will worry about her driving with a bunch of teens in the car.
I know it will be fun. But I really wanted to just flake out on the sofa and watch movies. I seem to be the only parent this weekend that is willing to bring the kids anywhere and have them come to the house. I get a lot of thank yous but no reciprocation.
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Won't be much longer she'll be driving, then you won't have to take them.
Have a funnel cake and sit and watch.
Sigh I know and then I will worry about her driving with a bunch of teens in the car.
I know it will be fun. But I really wanted to just flake out on the sofa and watch movies. I seem to be the only parent this weekend that is willing to bring the kids anywhere and have them come to the house. I get a lot of thank yous but no reciprocation.
Check your state laws, here, a new driver under 18 can only have 1 other person in the car with them. Unless a parent is with them.
As for being the go to parent for them, at least you know they are being looked after.
But, I get it. It's good to be a couch potato from time to time.
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Oh man I remember when my dad caught me with a friend in my car. Pulled up right beside us at a stop light, what are the odds of that?? I don't live in a small town.
Anyway, he leaned over and said get your ass home NOW. Scariest freaking drive of my life. Buy the time I dropped my friend off and got home i was shaking like a leaf. He didn't even punish me, he said he figured the anticipation was punishment enough. Believe me it was!
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Was it a bad day?
Or was it a bad five minutes that you milked all day?
Heck, the first night I got my license, my friends and I all piled into my car and went out to celebrate.
No one even thought about it.
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We didn't have those rules when I started driving. I get the kids now all borrow the parent's cars and they drive around in a long caravan. It is comical.
DD and friends did the corn maze in only 40 minutes. It is an 14 acre maze. Farm is old and the store was almost bare. But prices were good. I am making apple crisp right now.
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Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug.
I think it's a smart rule. The last thing a kid needs when they are putting lives on the line is more distractions. Plus, as you know, teens tend to show off around their friends.
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Was it a bad day?
Or was it a bad five minutes that you milked all day?
I think it's a smart rule. The last thing a kid needs when they are putting lives on the line is more distractions. Plus, as you know, teens tend to show off around their friends.
I agree
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Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug.
I think it's a smart rule. The last thing a kid needs when they are putting lives on the line is more distractions. Plus, as you know, teens tend to show off around their friends.
I agree, my daughter was invited to a sleep over where the girl just got her license that day and was going to take her friends for a cruise in the next town 40 miles away. When I found out I called her friends house and told her no way was she riding in a car that far away on interstates and curvey roads with a very brand new driver whom I had no way of knowing how good a driver she was. I had to be the mean mom, the funny thing was dd and another girl were actually relieved.
So I engaged in a little retail therapy. Traded the minivan in for a BMW convertible. I was sad because I really liked the minivan, and found melted crayons in the glovebox when cleaning it out. Memories. But when we drove home down the country roads at night listening to the 70's at 7 on Sirius XM and the comments from the boys in the backseats, I was no longer sad. New memories.
Oooooh, what channel is that? I'm not very adventurous when it comes to XM. I listen to 7, 8, 9, some 90's country station, and traffic. I think I had 54 on there and the love channel because they play Christmas music in November but I cannot remember the number now. I should have taken a pic of the channels I had so I can look them up on the new car. Oh well.
When I got my license I had been driving for years.
So maybe that's why it wasn't a big deal.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Oooooh, what channel is that? I'm not very adventurous when it comes to XM. I listen to 7, 8, 9, some 90's country station, and traffic. I think I had 54 on there and the love channel because they play Christmas music in November but I cannot remember the number now. I should have taken a pic of the channels I had so I can look them up on the new car. Oh well.
New car! Sweet!
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Oooooh, what channel is that? I'm not very adventurous when it comes to XM. I listen to 7, 8, 9, some 90's country station, and traffic. I think I had 54 on there and the love channel because they play Christmas music in November but I cannot remember the number now. I should have taken a pic of the channels I had so I can look them up on the new car. Oh well.
Oooooh, what channel is that? I'm not very adventurous when it comes to XM. I listen to 7, 8, 9, some 90's country station, and traffic. I think I had 54 on there and the love channel because they play Christmas music in November but I cannot remember the number now. I should have taken a pic of the channels I had so I can look them up on the new car. Oh well.
Love channel is 70, you should try 32 called the bridge, plays a variety of hits. 18 is the Beatles channel. I love my xm radio
When I got my license I had been driving for years.
So maybe that's why it wasn't a big deal.
I might have felt different if I knew the girl driving experience better. They did ended up cruising around locally. The fact that my daughter didn't argue with me tells me she wasn't comfortable with her either.
My friends and I were all over So Cal when we were 16. Learned to drive at 15, license on my 16th birthday. We used to take off for Hollywood, although my parents didn't know we were going that far. The night out wasn't a "night out" until a curb was scraped or hopped. I used to drive my BFF's Camaro because her foot would cramp up. Or we'd take my car. But roads were basically flat, unless we drove Dead Man's Curve which would always spook us out and we'd take it slow. We were never much for driving up into the hills as that's where the devil worshippers were and they would freak us out too much. We had our limits. LOL
Pawpaw would let me steer beside him as a little kid, could barely see over the dash.
Yep, no car seats or seat belts back then.
We drove everything, tractors, cars, trucks.
I was driving, and digging with, the ditch witch or front end loader at 12.
When I got my license, my friends and I were all over the tristate area.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Won't be much longer she'll be driving, then you won't have to take them.
Have a funnel cake and sit and watch.
Sigh I know and then I will worry about her driving with a bunch of teens in the car.
I know it will be fun. But I really wanted to just flake out on the sofa and watch movies. I seem to be the only parent this weekend that is willing to bring the kids anywhere and have them come to the house. I get a lot of thank yous but no reciprocation.
Check your state laws, here, a new driver under 18 can only have 1 other person in the car with them. Unless a parent is with them.
As for being the go to parent for them, at least you know they are being looked after.
But, I get it. It's good to be a couch potato from time to time.
It's actually graduated over time. DD is getting ready to get her permit in a few months and is taking classes in prep for that.
When you get your license at 16, it's a restricted license - no driving from midnight to 4 am, and -
The first 6 months, no other people except immediate family.
The second 6 months, you can have 1 other person.
The next year, no more than 3 people.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Won't be much longer she'll be driving, then you won't have to take them.
Have a funnel cake and sit and watch.
Sigh I know and then I will worry about her driving with a bunch of teens in the car.
I know it will be fun. But I really wanted to just flake out on the sofa and watch movies. I seem to be the only parent this weekend that is willing to bring the kids anywhere and have them come to the house. I get a lot of thank yous but no reciprocation.
Check your state laws, here, a new driver under 18 can only have 1 other person in the car with them. Unless a parent is with them.
As for being the go to parent for them, at least you know they are being looked after.
But, I get it. It's good to be a couch potato from time to time.
It's actually graduated over time. DD is getting ready to get her permit in a few months and is taking classes in prep for that.
When you get your license at 16, it's a restricted license - no driving from midnight to 4 am, and -
The first 6 months, no other people except immediate family.
The second 6 months, you can have 1 other person.
The next year, no more than 3 people.
I wasn't sure how it worked.
My kids waited till they were 18 to get theirs.
There were no restrictions.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I fear for the day DS starts driving. Or rather, I fear for my insurance rates. Hopefully, he'll get over this having to outdo Evel Knievel phase before he hits driving age.
