P-C, I wish you and your brother continuing strength in the face of your parent's obliviousness.
Healing~ma to ND, get him fixed this time, doctors!
Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?
Anya ,'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
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SailAweigh - Aug 28, 2010 5:23:22 am PDT #381 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Cashmere - Aug 28, 2010 5:26:28 am PDT #382 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I can't imagine the need to control the minds of your adult offspring.
P-C, I know you love your parents and I wish you the best in dealing with this. You're probably never going to change their minds but stick to your principles.
sj - Aug 28, 2010 5:51:30 am PDT #383 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
~ma for amyth's and Trudy's loved ones.
Pain ~ma for Drew.
{{{Pix}}}
P-C, tons of ~ma for your brother and you and for your sister. I can't even imagine.
~ma to anyone who needs it who I missed.
Burrell - Aug 28, 2010 6:08:56 am PDT #384 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh Pix, how scary for you and ND. I've been in your place before Pix and I can easily recall exactly how I felt. Sending strength and good health vibes to ND.
vw, that's very interesting about the kids and the failure to play. I'm so glad you have given the opportunity to play. It's so important, so enriching and revitalizing.
I can't imagine the need to control the minds of your adult offspring.
I can imagine it as I see it play out often enough. It just seems like a fool's errand to me. In a way, raising children is a leap of faith. You have to trust that they will find their way.
Ginger - Aug 28, 2010 6:22:23 am PDT #385 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I feel a little sorry for Ma and Pa Cow. All good parents want their children to have better lives than they did. They can't recognize that they've succeeded.
SailAweigh - Aug 28, 2010 6:22:25 am PDT #386 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
You give them the tools and then you stand back and clap in glee when they build something completely marvelous and their own.
Steph L. - Aug 28, 2010 6:24:48 am PDT #387 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
It doesn't help that I stayed up until 2:45 to finishing Mockingjay and therefore haven't slept yet.
So you're probably in a SUPER mindset after finishing that, right? t sarcasm
Seriously, I'm glad the dilaudid (yay!) got the pain down, but I am hoping like crazy that they get to the bottom of this. NOW.
I wish your parents had even a tiny inkling of just how inadvertently spectacular a job they've done of bringing some deeply splendid human beings into the world.
They just wonder what they did wrong.
I truly feel sorry for them. You and your brother (and, I imagine, your sister) are a parent's DREAM. No joke.
ChiKat - Aug 28, 2010 7:46:23 am PDT #388 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
{{{ND and Pix}}} I really hope they get everything figured out and can fix ND post hasty.
{{amyth}} and {{Trudy}} All kinds of ~ma for the 31st.
P-C: What everyone else has said. Especially:
You and your brother (and, I imagine, your sister) are a parent's DREAM. No joke.
So very much this.
Val: thanks for teaching the kids to play! I have a lot of Indian students, too, but by the time they get to me, they know how to play (which is important in my classes and in life in general) and it's because of teachers like you.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 28, 2010 8:08:17 am PDT #389 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am sorry to break in here, but I have a drug interaction question-- is Steph around?
Nora Deirdre - Aug 28, 2010 8:09:40 am PDT #390 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Oh, god, ND and Pix. I'm so sorry that you're going through this! Fingers crossed that they get to the bottom of this once and for all.
ION, I dropped smonster off for a wet and rainy New Orleans adventure at Elizabeth's in the Bywater, then went to the farmers market in the Central Business District. They have muscadet fruit! I don't know what to do with them though.
Yay, vw on the board!