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  • Patience

    My boys….. for this writing I will refer to them as ‘Older one’ and ‘Younger one,’ even if it is tempting to go with ‘thing one’ and ‘thing two.’ -Older one: “I told him he has to get ready right away and everything done when he gets up and then…

  • Supporting

    ‘I thought we could pull off to the memorial site on our way to the game,’ I said to my son. He and I were heading to what could have been his last hockey game with minor hockey, before he ‘ages out’ with his 18th birthday a few months away….

  • Loud Budgets?

    “We are thinking of renting a house boat for a week in the summer. You guys could come…”. She paused and waited for a response. I was looking at her, took a few seconds before responding, “mmm that’s not in our budget.” “Oh come on, with three families together, it’s…

  • Start Again

    Here we are again, the beginning of a new year. So it has me feeling, as usual, that we reset on a lot of things, and start over. Starting over in the sense of mindsets or goals. A time to decide again, what kind of person do I want to…