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Monthly Archives: December 2012

The Girlfriend

After a little thing with a gal or two, and a brief fling with”hickey girl”, our boy took up with a girl who lived not too far from us.  Her parents are local business owners and she was in her Senior year of High School, college bound.  Our boy was trying to make his mind […]

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The team Dinner

One day I was approached by my husband and he said innocently enough  “I volunteered us for hosting a team dinner”. I just looked at him and said, oh ok, what does that mean for us?  I had provided dishes for team dinners in the past but had never hosted one.  He said that hardly […]

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Boyfriends and the six inch rule

Once our girls hit I’d say 14, they became interested in boys in a different way than they had been before.  Understandable, it was time.  Though ever since I’d known them, their Dad had told them they would not do anything with boys till they turned 25, we all knew the time was coming a […]

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What happened to propriety?

I have mentioned in a couple of posts that my husband has rules when it comes to the children, and THAT he does.  They aren’t always taken seriously by them or followed and I think he gives a lot of latitude to them before he cracks his whip.  When he cracks it, he cracks it […]

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