When your kids turn out good --------

Bob Bement

Bob Bement

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I feel awful good right now, It isn't that all three of our children are home for Christmas, or that I made it through the 25th. Our son worried about his mother starting Cancer treatments, and knowing that I just spent a large amount for her a new embroidery machine to keep her mind busy. Gave his mother and I this Christmas present, of a pay off on the new embroidery machine. LIVE IS GOOD.
 

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Its a great feeling,,,,,, knowing the kids are great people too.
 
I have 3 daughers that are 30 or over. Not so much as 10 mins of problems. One is a marketing professor, the other two graduated from the colleges of their choices, and have 2 children each. One is a youth minister at her church counseling teenagers and young women. All three are happily married and I have 3 sons that are a great addition to my / our life. Words cannot express how proud I am for their accomplishments in school, and life (despite me best efforts) and I cannot say enough about their personalities. All three love to debate! Imagine that! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :D

Bob, you are right.... Life is good.
 
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Geico266 said:
The pride I get when people come up to me and praise my kids for their deeds and accomplishments is unbelieveable.
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Life's highest highs and lowest lows will always come from your kids.
 
I'll add to "when the kids turn out good"..

My daughter graduated High School in 2002 and traveled 2800 miles away to college.
No dorms avaliable, so she and I drove cross country towing a small trailer. We rented her a small apartment for college. She graduated on time.. 4 years later (2006) with a double BA degree and found work. Although she still relied on dad from time to time as layoffs and rehires occured.

Her last year in college she found a great young man, employed and sensible. They were married in Oct 2008 and they bought and moved into their first house the week before Christmas 2009.

In the midst of home buying, they took time at Thanksgiving to travel 8hrs by car each way to visit her grandmother to hook up an internet, set up email and provide instruction. (He's an IT professional geek and set it up so he can I can remote into Grandmother's computer to "fix things".)

Everyone keeps asking my wife and I what we did differently. I don't think it's so much "different".. we always were "family", we spent time together, as she grew up and had opinions we listened and debated and valued what she had to say. There were boundries, she knew what they were, and as she grew up those boundries expanded or became her own.

Isn't life grand....

And to the OP.. wish the wife well with the treatments..
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
 
Bob, there's no doubt in my mind that you would have raised such admirable Kids!!
 
I have to give the credit to my wife, Essie, she was the one. OH I guess they watched me and saw how I handled some things. My wife was asked by our youngest one time to write her an excuse because she was late getting to school. Now she was in grade school and it was right across the street from our house. My wife wrote" Beckie, has no excuse for being late. I got her up on time and she was out of the door on time. Do whatever you have to do, but she has no excuse for being late." I know why Beckie grew up to know that she was responsible for her own actions. That is not in vogue,to much,any more.
 
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