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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nasdaqian who wrote (57561)	12/22/2000 10:46:19 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

My kids say they want to buy the house next to us when they grow up- and then, since there are three of them, a fight ensues because there won't be enough house next to us, to satisfy them- and apparently the one behind us does not count as "next to". I thought it did- but it doesn't. It's like in every restaurant we go to- when the kids argue about who gets to sit by mom. And everytime it happens I think about how, in a few years, they won't even want to go out with mom- much less sit by her. Poor mom. My mother says my kids are kind and loving and won't be horrible teenagers like I was- but I think she is just being nice. And then after their teenage years- whether they are bumpy or not- they will go to college, where they will develop passions for things that they will not be able to fully explore in our little town. I can't imagine we have the kinds of jobs available in our little community that will suit three very different children- and then I have to consider their future spouses. How far away will they end up? At this point I am just hoping we all stay in the same state- but the odds of that isn't great, is it?

To: nasdaqian who wrote (57561)	12/22/2000 10:53:51 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 71178

Oh you have LOTS of time!! And you are so right- you have so little time! From ten on, it's just a blink. Even the kids start realizing it. Ammo said yesterday, "I'm just so overwhelmed by my life. WHere's it going!" ANd CW is depressed over leaving his teens because he says he will no longer be a boy genius. Now he's just another grown-up who's expected to do all this stuff well. What I'm noticing this year is how health is sneaking into the Christmas letters...and it's so depressing. Mostly for my college friends it's menopause, which true to form, my generation is not going to silently and stoically bear the way our mothers did. No sir. My kids gave me some cocktail napkins once. If Momma ain't happy, Ain't nobody happy (They thought this was very funny; I didn't) The letters are full of hormones and hysterectomies. Dan won't read them; he said just give him the shortened version- he has lived it once and doesn't care to listen to anyone else's hormonal horror stories. There are many parents dying or entering nursing homes. And some sad kid stories. ANd a couple of cancers- that's REALLY depressing. At least I didn't get any of my cards back with "Deceased" stamped on them.