Quote of the day (for thinking & reflecting upon) Back from vacation!!!!

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Yes!!! I am back. Now I go through several days of depression until I adjust to the work and grime of everyday life. But I have come back with changed views and different outlook.

"A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created and society is preserved." (Manny Feldman)

-- TomK (mich) (tjk@cac.net), August 15, 2001

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Great quote! Are you going to share your "changed views and different outlook" with us? No pressure, just wondering.......

-- Bonnie (chilton@stateline-isp.com), August 15, 2001.

Hi TomK, I like the quote! Sure fits MY vacation to a tee. We just returned from a break-a-way vacation, too. Our first in 18 years, we went to see my kinfolk in Missouri. I hadn't seen my Uncle in 20+ years, way tooooo long, but we just lost contact with family and I was blessed enough to have this pc and was able to locate "some" of them. What an experience! My Uncle has always reminded me of my Dad who passed in 1975, now I have also lost my oldest brother and to listen and watch my Uncle was so like seeing them also. Next, I meet a cousin I had never known and again that WOW! She sounded so like my Grandma and I was 10 when she passed. This cousin also brought memories to me back of my Grandmothers expressions. Then she showed me pics of her Mom, (my Grandmothers sister) and shocked again, her Mom and my Mom could have passed for twins! No, I never meet this Aunt before, so seeing her picture was just as special to me. Oh the whole vacation was a real trip down memory lane! Now we're back home, I have tons of new, good, and very special memeories and many newly found cousins! I also, am depressed to be back, home...?....now it isn't feeling so much like home. Can't figure why? Gee, hope this passes soon. TomK, hope things work out well for you. Maybe for our next vacation in the next twenty years or so, we'll just go picnic at the river or something? Just thought I'd share my experience. Take Care! Debb

-- Debb (fly45@bellsouth.net), August 15, 2001.

Debb, Glad you had a very memorable vacation. All though my was not as wonderful as yours. We spent ours with my wifes side of the family and after 9 yrs of doing so I was just plain not into it this year. I think alot has to do with me and being close to turning 50, it seems I just want to do things,go places that I have not done yet. And going up north to the in-laws farm every year is getting very thin. Now we did have fun at times as far as with the kids and going to the beach and fair,etc. but the rest of the time just sitting and listening to all the griping and watching her brothers & sisters drink and play golf from morning to night(my wife and me don't drink) just did not get it with me this year. All I kept thinking was "what a waste of time and energy." and that does not include her 1 13yrs old neice who made a move on me!!!!!. I was in shock.

The quote I chose was because compared to my wifes brother and sisters kids,my wife and me have try are best to set a good example for our kids. And instead of letting them run loose and such we have taken responsability for ours. The quote is exactly how we feel about raising kids.

Bonnie, Once I have it more in words then thought I will post a posting for people to answer about.

-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), August 15, 2001.


TomK, I REALLY can relate to your vacation and your feelings on your quote. I went to visit the part of my family that I DO feel I can relate to and only discovered this after 20+years gone by and I've grown old(er) and my 4 kiddo's are all grown now and out on their own. I feel I/we missed a lifetime with them. The part of my family that was around me/us and my kiddo's (the undesirables hate to admit it too) as they were growing up seems to have been the examples I told the kiddo's they did NOT want to turn out like. If ya get my drift? Sure gets to be awfully old crap too. Thank the good Lord, my kiddo's ALL turned out to be great kiddo's! As far as my undesirable side kids, well the apples didn't fall far from their home tree. Yes, I enjoyed my visit with my other relatives tremendously. Think I'd be depressed too in your shoes and then with a young child behaving in such manner!! Just another example of kids raising themselves and doing so without morals and values..oh, I'll hush and leave out my 2 cents here. I can also relate to getting too close to getting...old...er. Ol'Father Time, and I remember it was just yesterday I use to say "I ain't ever gonn'a get THAT old" now, I just tell the hubby to shoot me when I start getting/acting like this'n'that. When I mentioned the next time a picnic by a river, no joke, though I ultimatley enjoyed my vacation I missed having quality time with my hubby that we sooo much needed to have, so WE still need a vacation, OURS! Maybe together, we could discover a river or fossil or rock that is yet to be found, oh dreaming now. Just a hint, maybe you should plan the vacation next time? Good Luck and hope you can regroup and recoup from your vacation, real soon. Take Care, Debb

-- Debb (fly45@bellsouth.net), August 16, 2001.

We are lucky enough to be able to travel now that we are retired. We take a couple of long and a couple of short trips every year. Our favorite trips have been to visit and meet people that we have met on the internet. Will be heading out in a few weeks for Yellowstone and places and people between here and there.

-- Belle (gardenbelle@terraworld.net), August 16, 2001.


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