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Sep. 2nd, 2007
green and lush
Sep. 2nd, 2007 11:47 am
Know what a good morning is? A beautiful morning, a cup of coffee, looking out over your beautiful, lush, green, overgrowing back yard, watching various birds, butterflies, and cute fat little squirrels dance around my fence and trees.
The quality is crap. It was done on my phone.
See my bananas?
Where is the pot of gold
Sep. 2nd, 2007 12:41 pmLast week Houston had a lot of rain (enough to flood some parts of the city) and I looked out my window Wednesday afternoon and saw a really large rainbow out past our parking garage.
ROAD TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!
Sep. 2nd, 2007 05:02 pm I am very excited. I get to take a vacation after all. A friend is driving to NC and I am joining in. I have family there to visit. I haven't seen my aunt and uncle in forever. I am hoping to see my cousin too, if his bratty ass will ever call me back. He is in Vegas partying at the moment.
It is weird going somewhere without Connor and Karen. I hated that I couldn't go to AR with them in July. Now I have an opportunity to go visit family, but Con is in school and Fini has work.
At least the 3 of us have plans to go to San Antonio soon. That will be nice. Hopefully we can get there in October.
It is weird going somewhere without Connor and Karen. I hated that I couldn't go to AR with them in July. Now I have an opportunity to go visit family, but Con is in school and Fini has work.
At least the 3 of us have plans to go to San Antonio soon. That will be nice. Hopefully we can get there in October.
cutting the apron strings
Sep. 2nd, 2007 09:26 pmConnor is getting to be such a little man. He seems younger than I was when I was his age. It might be because Fini and I are incredibly protective of him. It may be because he seems to be insistant on staying young.
We are very liberal in the information that we share with him and make sure that he is aware of the dangers around him. He was always way to trusting of people as a toddler. He would walk up and talk to anyone. There was no such thing as a stranger to that boy. I didn't want to kill his innocence, but I didn't want him to end up like Adam Walsh either.
The scariest thing of all is just realizing that he has free will. We intellectually understand that the day will come, but it will hit you.. like a brick wall it will hit you, that you will not always have control over them. They are going to do whatever the hell they want to do and aside from guiding, advising and telling them what to do, you really have no control over them and what they do. It is terrifying. If he wants to have unprotected sex as a teen, he is going to find a way to do it. If he wants to try drugs, he will find a way to try it. There is not a damn thing I can do to stop him. I can just teach him, inform him, instruct him, and watch him closely.
I cannot believe he is 13. In just 6 months, he will be 14. 14!!!! isn't that insane? He is such an amazing person. I am so very lucky that in the draw of who I ended up with coming out of my tummy and given the responsibility and opportunity to love and raise, that I recieved Connor. He is so kind, funny, smart, generous, empethetic and interesting. He is just a wonderful person.
We are very liberal in the information that we share with him and make sure that he is aware of the dangers around him. He was always way to trusting of people as a toddler. He would walk up and talk to anyone. There was no such thing as a stranger to that boy. I didn't want to kill his innocence, but I didn't want him to end up like Adam Walsh either.
The scariest thing of all is just realizing that he has free will. We intellectually understand that the day will come, but it will hit you.. like a brick wall it will hit you, that you will not always have control over them. They are going to do whatever the hell they want to do and aside from guiding, advising and telling them what to do, you really have no control over them and what they do. It is terrifying. If he wants to have unprotected sex as a teen, he is going to find a way to do it. If he wants to try drugs, he will find a way to try it. There is not a damn thing I can do to stop him. I can just teach him, inform him, instruct him, and watch him closely.
I cannot believe he is 13. In just 6 months, he will be 14. 14!!!! isn't that insane? He is such an amazing person. I am so very lucky that in the draw of who I ended up with coming out of my tummy and given the responsibility and opportunity to love and raise, that I recieved Connor. He is so kind, funny, smart, generous, empethetic and interesting. He is just a wonderful person.