Merry Christmas to you, Jeffy. One of the hardest things for me was letting go of S19 last year when I left H. Then a freshman, his grades tanked, and I carried the guilt. Read what Kerry wrote on my thread last week. He was right. I've learned that I need to take care of Goldey first, and sometimes that means 15 times in a day. If I let them go, they will come back. And besides, they were never 'my' children to begin with. They're God's. love, Goldey
S19 is a freshman and had an issue with one of his classes too- he has to repeat one this coming semester. It was one of his music theory classes: "sight-singing". He's an excellent musician, but there's a reason why the kid was never in the choir! I just hope that it doesn't hurt his scholarship renewal...
Inclined to agree with the poster that said 20 is a tough age. I personally found 19 very tough and despite being too damn close to 50 at this point in my life, I still would NOT go back to being 19 again!
Hope you`re doing well Jeff, having a good Xmas and full of optimism for 2010.
Our kids will run through funny phases regardless of our marital status-just helps if both parents are pulling together which seems to be what`s happening in your case.
Looking forward to reading of your 2010 adventures!
Just stopped by to wish you a Merry Christmas. Can't believe it is in the 60s for you, our weather report says we have about 14" of snow so far and it is still falling believe it or not!
Hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend, take care my friend...
(((((goldey)))))(((((bunny)))))(((((Fallgirl)))))(((((BobbiJo)))))(((((Kalni)))))(((((mishka))))) XW and I talked about S20 (on the phone) Saturday night. I think we are on the same page. We don't think that he should return to school as things are, we don't see why anything would be different. As far was we can see it would be throwing good money, and time, after bad. And it can't be good for his ego to be failing, he knows that he shouldn't be. The only thing left is telling him, though I think he knows. He is going with X up to Phoenix today to pick up her brother and her son at the airport, she may learn something on the trip, as well.
I have no big New Year's plans. My dad and his wife are supposed to get here tomorrow afternoon, and stay for a few days. I don' think their departure is carved in stone, don't know when it will be. They've got a motor home, so they are pretty flexible. I think they are planning to stay in it parked out front while they are here, though they might use the guestroom instead. My dad had an incident involving the step on the motor home not lowering as it is supposed to last week, and took a tumble that twisted his knee a bit last week, I don't know how that is doing. If he is ok, we might get to golf once or twice while they are here.
In the meantime, I need to do some housecleaning, though I might need to golf today, depending on if the sun comes out.... it looks cloudy right now!
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Ditto what Michelle said. Communicating well where your children are concerned is great.
I hope your dad's knee is well enough to golf with you. Motorhome living is so interesting to me. I can't imagine cramming everything you need into such a relatively small space. Even those crazy luxury motorcoaches are too small for me to imagine living in. Truthfully, they probably have more room in them than my house does. LOL!
T19 M15 S19 XH47 M43 bomb12/4/07 PA5/07 S12/26/07 D final 11/17/08 Back together with no defined R 05/2010 confused....to say the least!!!
Truthfully, they probably have more room in them than my house does. LOL!