WHAT A DAY! OK – edited

We are playing bridge here tonight so slowly we are getting ready. I have onion soup cooking so we will eat soon. Then I will have to clean up the kitchen get dressed and I’ll be ready.
I stayed home all day. I did some painting in the laundry room. I think I will move all my art supplies down there. I thought I would paint in the bookroom but it is just not condusive since the lighting is not good and there is no sink. I will leave my supplies set up so whenever I get the urge I can paint. I would like to have a "gimmick" in my paintings as I paint abstract. I’ll have to give it a lot of thought.
This morning I was busy calling travel agents as my married son wants us all to go on a cruise Christmas time. It is a very busy and expensive time so I am trying to discourage him. It doesn’t work!!!!
His girlfriend is concerned about her son and his behavior……………………….I think she it too uptight and strict but what do I know. I don’t live with the little boy so what do I know. I know that the parents are totally stressed out.
They give their three children a bath together to save time. There are two little boys of six and a little girl of three. Am I wrong to think they are too old for this? I think she should give her daughter a bath and my son can give the boys. This way they get a little more individual attention. I can’t remember when my kids were that small. I think it is important for children to get some of their parents individual attention. I think it is important to read them each a story alone at bedtime and then tuck them in. Giving individual baths would also make for  quality time with each child. Maybe I am way off on this and it wouldn’t make a difference in the end. But that’s my two cents.
So we played bridge. We were nine so had to take turns.
Tomorrow we are going to see some condos. Three or four around the same area. It would be so strange to move after living here over thirty years. We would also have to move fast as we would want to get things done before we leave for Florida.
In the afternoon I am picking up my grandson. We will probably go swimming and then I will meet his mother for supper so my grand son will get a chance to see his mother while he is with his father. I hope I am doing the right thing but it seems like my grandson really misses his mother during the week so why shouldn’t he see her.
So that’s all folks.

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Maybe they are starting to be too old — what do I know? Things are different now than when I was a kid or a mother with young kids. I would have thought it all right back then! I am in favor of strictness – My husband and I used to each take a kid or two to bathe – that surely helped.

August 4, 2009

6 and 3 are too old to be having a bath together in my opinion. The little girl will soon notice the differences and then the parents will have to explain it to her. And I agree the children should have a separate bath at this point. It may take a little longer but the time spent with the child will be well worth it in the end.

I think the tighter you hold your children the more they will push away but at the sametime you can’t just let them run free. So darn if you do darn if you don’t I suppose.

August 4, 2009

I think the boys should bathe seperatly from the little girl, since the boys are 6 and she is only 3. My grandson arrives tomorrow afternoon. So excited!!

August 5, 2009

I let my son and daughter bathe together when they were that age, because they had so much fun playing together. But it was soon after that that I had to explain to them they’d be starting to take separate baths. I don’t remember what I said! I think age six is alright, but any older is too old. hugs, Weesprite

August 5, 2009

I have a geat photo of my sons, 5 and 2, in the tub. The older one has on goggles and the younger is pretty round. I call it “Jacque Cousteau and Baby Shamu.” I want some onion soup!

August 5, 2009

it’s about time they bathed separately. even the boys need their own privacy. hope you find a condo soon. take care,

Tellhimthat your gut instinct tells you that you cannot go on a Christmas cruise but that you are willing to go some other time, either after or before Christmas. Then you can all call it YOUR CHRISTMAS cruise, no matter when you go.

May I ask a question? Do you have a primary home and then travel to Florida once in awhile? Onion soup sounds wonderful!