A recent conversation...

Me: Our kids always play in the front yard. Since we are nestled in a subdivision, we get very little traffic.

Friend: Oh, we live on a cul-de-sac, but we NEVER let our kids play out front. (Kids aged 7,6,4) We are waaayyyyy too overly protective.

(Fast forward 15 minutes into the conversation)

Friend: When we go camping in the mountains, we have the kids wear whistles so they can wander around and yet still be able to alert us if they encounter a mountain lion or bear.

Still makes me chuckle when I think about it!

Excuses, excuses

Is having 6 kids a good enough excuse for not blogging more often? I always said I'd never use the excuse of having "so many kids" to keep me from doing anything, so I guess I've answered my own question. Perhaps I'll start jotting ideas down so that I don't forget them by the time I sit in front of the computer! No excuses!!

LOVE IT!!!!

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.