Oh my goodness,
LadyM -- I don't blame you one bit! Nine years old is just a little too young (IMHO!) to be roaming around without supervision or parents even knowing where a child IS! And to go to the lake by themselves? NO NO NO!!! You are NOT being over-protective.
When I was little, 5-10 or so, I had neighbors in the two houses beside me and we pretty much roamed from one house to the next, but we were almost always outside in each other's yards, so all our parents had to do was come out in the backyard and call our names. I remember my daddy thinking it was sooo awful b/c the little boy, two houses down, answered: "WHAT???" once when his mother called for him. Now this was not in a subdivision or anything; we had all had large yards -- 2 or 3 acres -- but still, we were pretty much in sight of our parents IF they wanted to come out and look for us. Of course we were not under their direct supervision all the time. There was also a very large, and very deep pond behind our houses -- it belonged to the boy's parents. We DID play around it some, which my dad did not approve of very much, and in hindsight, I'd be a nervous wreck if the dgrands were near a body of water like that with no more swimming ability than I had then (or now, for that matter).
When we got older, they would let us ride our bikes to the store * only occasionally * which meant maybe a quarter mile down the ditch beside a fairly busy highway -- but the ditch was VERY wide and we were able to stay in it until we got to the store. But we were probably 12-13 by then.
Anyway -- I'd stand firm on the restrictions if I were you,
LadyM!
The beauty of Wednesday is getting harder and harder to find, y'all...
DDIL is going to have to have TWO more teeth pulled and get an implant.
$4800.
Yep. And she's just going to let the dentist she saw today do it; they agreed to allow her 18 months w/no interest to pay. DDIL's insurance will pick up in 25 days -- but it wouldn't cover all of this anyway, probably just the basic extraction. * sigh * They told her to do a crown and a bridge would have been over $4000, so she & ds figured it'd be better to go ahead and do the whole works.
PLUS -- their ac unit in the bedroom part of the house is out. They called The Man, who is coming out in the morning.
(Of course, none of the above is part of my circus, but you hate it when your adult child is having a rough time, no matter what.)
Under part of MY circus tent --
NEXT --
dgs heard from his t-ball coach, who is a young man whom dh and I taught/dh coached in school, wonderful guy my dbro's age who actually raised his own two nephews b/c his sister was unable to, in addition to his own two sons. The only negative to this is, his older son is in 12-yr-old all-stars, and he doesn't know WHAT days they will practice next week; he will let ds know sometime during the weekend. This is bad b/c IF dgs has practice Monday, dh and I need to take him -- ds will be in Indiana, and ddil will be getting her teeth pulled. IF he does not have practice, dh and I would like to be in Indiana also, w/dgs... but... who knows when we will know??? So -- playing the waiting game again, which you all know is one of dh's very
favorite games of all.
DH is in a terrible mood already, b/c of lack of sleep last night, but he is getting a shower now and we plan to go to a movie in a little while. Hopefully a very hilarious comedy.
Thank you for bragging on me,
blessed! And WTG on all your work, in spite of your dh's being underfoot. Believe me I know how that is!
The kitchen is all s/s after supper, dgrands are relatively well-fed and back in their own home, and most of the toys have been put away.
Tomorrow, I have to go with ds to take them to swimming lessons, so that will be a good chunk of the day -- we have to go to Next Town. DDIL says she may be home before ds has to leave tomorrow night, however, so we may not have them long tomorrow afternoon.
She will bring them back to us EARLY Friday morning, and we'll have them till around 5:30-6:00, and I'll be taking them to swimming lessons by myself. DH says he just isn't up to it, with a fairly long road trip Saturday, and possibly more -- depending on when the t-ball coach calls back.
DH will be disappointed to miss the Indiana trip, but OTOH, he and ddil are going BACK to Nashville (TN) on Wednesday to a thing ds is doing (and I am keeping the dgrands) so that's going to be enough for dh anyway, if he is honest with himself.