Comments:

Yvonne - 2005-06-06 07:50:02
You and Bob are wonderful.
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Sunny - 2005-06-06 16:25:42
Lovw your story of your first meal! Your parents sound like they tried to do a good job of teaching you responsibility...something that needs to happen at a young age. It also teaches people that they aren't "entitled", that they're part of a team that needs to work together to succeed well. When you wrote of people going through 'stuff'--that is so true. People don't go through this life without stuff happening (suffering, if you will). It just doesn't happen for life to go smoothly all the time. You and your husband did a good thing to share from your plenty to someone with a need. That should be what it's all about.
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Jen G. - 2005-06-06 17:20:59
Pardon my shallow-ness...but I LOVE Janet Evanovich! How many of her books have you read?
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whyme63 - 2005-06-09 11:54:26
I liked the tale of your early cooking adventure. It reminded me of when I was little. For me, it was doing the dishes, when I was five or six. After lunch, I lured my mom into the family room, then darted back into the kitchen and locked the door between us. I then proceeded to wash the dishes, and told my mom to just sit down and watch "As the World Turns".

Once I had the kitchen "all cleaned up, I let her back in, and she made an impressive show of pride at my maturity, and my cleverness at having tricked her.

Many years later, I realized that had she wanted to, she could have walked out the back door, around the house, and in the front door without any trouble at all (small town Iowa + 1960s = unlocked doors).

It was so cool of her to not do that.
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whyme63 - 2005-06-09 11:55:02
I liked the tale of your early cooking adventure. It reminded me of when I was little. For me, it was doing the dishes, when I was five or six. After lunch, I lured my mom into the family room, then darted back into the kitchen and locked the door between us. I then proceeded to wash the dishes, and told my mom to just sit down and watch "As the World Turns".

Once I had the kitchen "all cleaned up, I let her back in, and she made an impressive show of pride at my maturity, and my cleverness at having tricked her.

Many years later, I realized that had she wanted to, she could have walked out the back door, around the house, and in the front door without any trouble at all (small town Iowa + 1960s = unlocked doors).

It was so cool of her to not do that.
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whyme63 - 2005-06-09 11:55:25
D'oh!
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