Where in the World is Bob Saget?

[Gabe1]

BEYOND HILARIOUS!!!!!
You have NO idea how close I came to posting that same image of Archie and Edith's chairs because of a silly story behind it...
My younger sis (12 years my junior) went on a choir trip to DC back when she was in HS with my folks. They got all the way through that particular museum and out the door when pop realized he had missed that exhibit...!!! How THE HECK, I have NO clue!!! Anyway, they asked to go back in just for that, and his wish was granted. One more off the bucket list...!

And yes, I, of course want to do them all, as well, but, I could spend days (and nights ) in the Air and Space Museum...!!!

My DD and I got lost in the Science & Industry which is an amazing building and museum on Lake Michigan, the water seems to float to the french steel doors. We wound up in an area that we had never been before through a series of odd hallways. We wound up in the Space area. It was beyond creepity.

 

[Gabe1]

Breakfast!!!!!

3 please

 

[JenniferS]

you need to explain that very clearly to him :/

Yeah ... or I could just smack him.

 

[Gabe1]

Haha, so you were a sneaky teen, huh?

Yup, I get their reasons as well. I don't understand how when I was in high school, there were parents who would let their kids take the light rail down to Baltimore City for O's games and such. I thought that they should at least have a parents, preferably a dad, with them. Even now, I don't think taking the light rail is safe. If I were to go to the city with friends, unless a guy or parent was with us, we'd drive. I'd be willing to take a train down to DC with my bff. She's done it before. My mom, although she has zero say in the matter, has said that she would be fine with that. My dad would be another story. But seriously, I go places around here without them all the time, have been to WDW with my bff just us,and she's been to DC before and knows her way around. Think we could handle it, especially if we were going to the tourist traps.

Normally I was not too sneaky. I did have parents that seemed to love to say NO! though, so I kinda had to work it.
It was worse when I was in college and when I was home it was like I was child again. Also why I move pretty young on my own. I never got into any trouble, that was my Sis' job. She also got herself tossed at 21. That is when she came to live with me and my DH for a half a year. I have given my kids growing up far more slack.

 

[JenniferS]

Breakfast!!!!!

Maple syrup?

 

[Gabe1]

Yeah ... or I could just smack him.

I like your idea better. Quicker. Better results.

 

[Gabe1]

 

[Gabe1]

I love timelines, just not this one December 9th.

 

[Gabe1]

 

[JenniferS]

Aye!

There are reasons for my signature. I also have had....

Friends, Gods apology for our families.

I love Jamie - don't get me wrong, but he suffers from typical youngest sibling selfishness.
(Strangely, Hubby is the youngest of 7, and is the least selfish person I know.)

When Jamie was about 3 months old, his crib was moved into my bedroom.
I was the one (at the age of 7 1/2) who used to get up in the middle of the night, change his diaper and feed him his bottle.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, but my mom suffered extreme post-partum depression after his birth, and was happy to hand over much of the responsibility to me.

As a young school aged kid, he had the greasiest hair. I used to wash it every morning (and sometimes after school) with Agree shampoo (that I bought with my own baby-sitting money).

When I was 12, we moved into an old, old house, that we shared with mice, raccoons, squirrels, and bats. One of the chimneys ran through the back wall of my bedroom, and the critters scared me so bad, I used to make him sleep with me. In a tiny twin bed, no less.
What I thought a 5-year old could protect me from, I have no idea.

I used to cut his hair, cart him everywhere with me, do his share of the chores, buy him clothes with my own money .... He was the best living doll any little girl could ask for.

So, Jamie and I go way back. As his second mother, I've earned the right to cuff him, as needs be.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Normally I was not too sneaky. I did have parents that seemed to love to say NO! though, so I kinda had to work it.
It was worse when I was in college and when I was home it was like I was child again. Also why I move pretty young on my own. I never got into any trouble, that was my Sis' job. She also got herself tossed at 21. That is when she came to live with me and my DH for a half a year. I have given my kids growing up far more slack.

My mom is definitely more lenient than my dad. My mom also had super strict parents (there's a reason why we refer to her mother as the Wicked Witch of the West...). My dad is a control freak. Most recently it's been when I go to bed. Yesterday we got into it because he was trying to tell me that I was lazy for wanting to sleep in, that I couldn't get up in the morning, and that, "You need to learn to get up in the morning." To which I told him 1. I am not a morning person. That is not going to change. Mom is not a morning person and neither am I. So unlike him, I will never wake up happy. 2. I choose not to take early classes so that I'm better rested. In high school when I had to get up early, I didn't sleep well and was sick a lot. Getting up later helps me stay health. 3. I can get up early if I need to. I had an 8 am class first semester and never missed a single class. I also haven't missed a class this semester and opted to take the 10:50 management class over the noon one to get a certain professor, so in certain circumstances, I can and will get up early. Also, I got up early for work two days out of the week over the summer and only missed one day when I was sick. And I still went in for half a day that day. That got him quiet pretty quickly. We also butt heads on when I should be doing my homework (other than statistics, I'm a straight A student; that is NOT necessary), where I should be doing homework (he didn't think me laying on the couch making a PowerPoint on my tablet with the cat on top of me was a good spot for homework), if I come home and take a nap...My mom and I butt heads, but it's far less often. My dad and I argue about something at least once a day. I love him, but good grief, he drives me bonkers. I think it's one of those things where once we're not living together, we'll get along much better.

 

[JenniferS]

My mom is definitely more lenient than my dad. My mom also had super strict parents (there's a reason why we refer to her mother as the Wicked Witch of the West...). My dad is a control freak. Most recently it's been when I go to bed. Yesterday we got into it because he was trying to tell me that I was lazy for wanting to sleep in, that I couldn't get up in the morning, and that, "You need to learn to get up in the morning." To which I told him 1. I am not a morning person. That is not going to change. Mom is not a morning person and neither am I. So unlike him, I will never wake up happy. 2. I choose not to take early classes so that I'm better rested. In high school when I had to get up early, I didn't sleep well and was sick a lot. Getting up later helps me stay health. 3. I can get up early if I need to. I had an 8 am class first semester and never missed a single class. I also haven't missed a class this semester and opted to take the 10:50 management class over the noon one to get a certain professor, so in certain circumstances, I can and will get up early. Also, I got up early for work two days out of the week over the summer and only missed one day when I was sick. And I still went in for half a day that day. That got him quiet pretty quickly. We also butt heads on when I should be doing my homework (other than statistics, I'm a straight A student; that is NOT necessary), where I should be doing homework (he didn't think me laying on the couch making a PowerPoint on my tablet with the cat on top of me was a good spot for homework), if I come home and take a nap...My mom and I butt heads, but it's far less often. My dad and I argue about something at least once a day. I love him, but good grief, he drives me bonkers. I think it's one of those things where once we're not living together, we'll get along much better.

Paragraphs and spacing, please. Try to follow my good example.

Parents will never stop being parents. Kids will never stop being kids.
And that is why, sooner rather than later, young adults need to move out and live on their own - either away at school, on their own, or with a few room-mates.

I lived by myself for 7 years (mostly in a back to front duplex, with my cousin in the rear apartment) from the age of 19, until I got married. Best experience of my life.

And, I was already an OCD control freak before that, so kindly with-hold comments from the peanut gallery.

 

[MinnieM123]

This is the place you'd never get me out of...!!!

Me either!

 

[MinnieM123]

Yeah ... or I could just smack him.

Explain, then smack. (At least then he'd realize why you're smacking him!)

 

[MinnieM123]

Join the club. Though I have applied for jobs in Baltimore . Though I don't like football or the Orioles. I kind of lost interest in baseball after the Red Sox won in 2004. Though biggest aquarium in the US should be awesome. But I have a phone interview tomorrow for a job in Orlando.

@MinnieM123 Do you work in Boston?

I think I did that right. I'm not sure.

Yup, work in Beantown. I don't live there, though.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

17 days until Halloween.

 

[unkadug]

 

[Wrangler-Rick]

Well I get the parent thing.....

When my folks moved us out of Chicago when I was a little kid, my Sis and I were not allowed in Chicago. Period.

I was an early teen when a friend of mine had an extra ticket to the Chicago-Beach Boy Concert. We went with his brother and his friends. If I asked my Dad he would have said No. Zero discussion. My Mom was in Arizona visiting her Mom. I wanted to go, it was a once in a life time double header concert.

So, I went out for the evening, Dad went to bed. My Sis at my curfew opened and closed the front door and then closed my bedroom door. (she said my Dad got up and used the facilities and went back to bed.) I quietly entered in around 2am.

It was a little different for me. We were southsiders and then moved just south of Chicago when I was in 5th grade. I could hop on the expressway and be downtown in 20 minutes. When I was younger, they used to have concerts at the Chicago Amphitheater, which was even closer. Then they built Popular Creek - a bit further away, and finally the Rosemont Horizon. I was lucky enough to see a bunch of the old rock groups: The Who, ELP, Journey, Foreigner, Santana, Styx, Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, REO Speedwagon... We were always visiting the museums and all the festivals in Grant Park.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Paragraphs and spacing, please. Try to follow my good example.

Parents will never stop being parents. Kids will never stop being kids.
And that is why, sooner rather than later, young adults need to move out and live on their own - either away at school, on their own, or with a few room-mates.

I lived by myself for 7 years (mostly in a back to front duplex, with my cousin in the rear apartment) from the age of 19, until I got married. Best experience of my life.

And, I was already an OCD control freak before that, so kindly with-hold comments from the peanut gallery.

At 1:30 in the morning typing on an iPod, you shall get little paragraphs and spacing

Happy? I pressed enter here.

I would love to move out on my own, but quite frankly, I don't have the money to do that. It would be $10,000 per year to live on campus. Right now I don't take out student loans because I don't want debt when I graduate, so I can go where my parents can afford to send me. Which is this school minus room and board.

I've looked into off campus apartments. Can't afford that either. And the only person who I would want to live with, my bff, cannot afford to move out either. Even living together would be expensive for both of us.

Plus I'm in a set of circumstances where I'm still needed at home. If I'm home a few days a week, it allows my mom to take substitute teaching jobs. My brother is not legally able to get off the bus and come home by himself as I would at his age. The bus driver cannot let him off. So my mom can only take jobs at the elementary school when I don't have class and am able to be home in the afternoon. I also watch him when they go out.

So right now, moving out is not an option. I did look at colleges away from home, but again, too expensive. When I'm out of college, 22, and working full time, yes I'll move out, hopefully to Florida. And then when my parents are no longer paying for college, they can help me. I think it's great that you were able to move out on your own at 19. I think it's great that your son is moving out, if for no other reason than your sanity. I just can't afford to do that right now.

 

[FutureCEO]

So right now, moving out is not an option. I did look at colleges away from home, but again, too expensive. When I'm out of college, 22, and working full time, yes I'll move out, hopefully to Florida.

if you can get a full time job.