ds44

Thank you ... that's so sweet of you to say. They're about four hours away. I'm going up for Canada day weekend.

jediwands

Great! Four hours is a great little ride. I bet they miss you just as much as you miss them even if they are having fun.

secretk

Ok now I'm fully available here to read what was posted in the last few days.

Betty sounds like you had awesome time. Is Nadine going to stay a bit to spend time with you after the wedding?

Michelle how is the weather? Did you have some storms?

We had as usual last night, but not that serious like you have. Just wild thunderstorms and raining. No fallen trees though so it's definitely not bad as you. I hope that it's fine now in your country now.

Shu you are a great mother which is why you feel this way. I'm sure that they miss you too.

Lol about the twinkles.

everwoodfan52

She staying in the US until July 18th.


I guess I wasn't a good mother because I welcomed periodic breaks from my kids.

secretk

You both sound awesome mothers. I think that people are just different and so are you two which is why you dealt with the absence of your kids differently.

What counts though is that your kids love you. I think that this is judgement enough what kind of parents you are.

That's cool Betty. You will be able to spend time with her. I'm sure that you are happy about this too because with her living in Netherlands you can't see each other that often. Did she say how was the wedding?

everwoodfan52

She's not back yet. She'll return tomorrow. I can't wait to find out about the wedding.

ds44

don't get me wrong it's nice to have the break. It's just my first big break from them. I'm used to 2-3 days. But, 2weeks is hard. I think it would be easier if I was working, but I'm not.

everwoodfan52

You're right about that! Two weeks is pretty long.

As far as working is concerned...I've got today, Tue, and Wed, and then...SCHOOL'S OUT FOR THE SUMMER!!!!!!!!

secretk

Ah Betty you will get to rest a bit! That's awesome! Any big plans for the summer?

Shu 2 weeks is definitely a lot and even more since you don't work.

jediwands

Thanks for asking.

Saturday/Sunday morning was not rough at all. We didn't get what they predicted. Things have calmed down. Everyone has power back in the area. Those three days were horrible, though. In the past, I don't remember having three days of severe weather like that in a row.

Shu, your kids are pretty young still and it is literally a half a month we are talking about. My mom would feel the same way. My sister misses my older niece when she's gone for a weekend at a friends house a couple miles away and she's 13! lol She says the break feels good for about a night but then she starts missing her. She feels stupid but she can't help it. I find it cute and endearing. A mother's love is special.

secretk

Glad that it's over. Are they predicting anything like that this week? I hope not. Three days is enough!

You have a point. A parent would definitely miss their young (and not so young because no matter how old we are we are always kids to our parents) kids if they are gone for half of month.

jediwands

I know! There's severe weather threats today, Tuesday, Wednesday but Thursday through the weekend looks to be calm.

Do you guys ever get severe weather in the summer with the trees going down and that type of stuff?

Precisely.

Barrybgb

The only severe weather we get in the summer is dry heat and we get a lot of fires in the surrounding areas of town and in other little towns in the state. Right now, we've been getting a lot of rain and winds. It cleared up and got warm, and now it's back down to the 50's and 60s and raining. In the high 80s by the weekend. You just never know around here!

jediwands

Haha! I would love your weather, Twin. I would love all the rain (light rain) you get, not to mention the beautiful scenery. Dry heat in the summer is heavenly. I could get used to that really quickly!

secretk

That sucks. Fingers crossed that there will be nothing serious.
No here the thunderstorms are the dangerous thing. People shouldn't be on the street in this moment because they could be severely injured. And of course there is the money factor because a lot of technical widgets suffer from these storms. Luckily it's rare when there are casualties. Oh yes and of course people that live near by river could get flooded because here it rains a lot.

Luckily so far it's nothing serious here.

I'm having the beach/soccer trip this week so now I'm packing my stuff. Well we go there on Thursday but I prefer to handle it earlier because waiting till the last moment (just like I did for the technical seminar) wasn't optimal for me. I was too tired and I had to sleep only 4 hours to pack my stuff. So now I'm starting earlier.