NFRC: Now that we're empty-nesters, we've decided to "upgrade" a few things. The boys are in shock.

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michael-in-phoenix

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They come home and see things like deli meat instead of cold cuts in commercial packages, lights under the cabinets, blue-tooth speakers, etc., and they are bamboozled and aghast!

"CAGE-FREE EGGS???!!!??? We never had that! When did you guys start buying CAGE-FREE EGGS??????!"

Answer: "When we stopped spending all our money on growing boys."

Then we get the "stare".

The seasons of life.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone!

Michael

 
I have noticed a really disturbing trend with my older kids...

they increasingly refer to me like I'm an historical character. "Remember when dad used to..." "Dad always did that..." etc.

 
Ours was the furniture

After growing up under threat of death for so much as scuffing the Ethan Allen wood end and coffee tables, they got a dog after we moved out that spent most of his time perched on top of the coffee table. Scratched it all to hell. We reminded them frequently that WE never got away with that.

 
Melissa--I would have been seeking therapy 2 find out why yr folks loved the dog more than U kids.ha

 
My boys were born in the mid-90s, so to them the Vietnam War might as well be the Civil War.

I still have copies of some 70s and 80s movies laying around. We showed them "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Blazing Saddles". They didn't laugh at Eddie Murphy and we only got about 10 minutes into "Blazing Saddles" before they were grossly offended by the race gags. (Which is to their credit, right?).

Time moves on, Paul, and as we inch toward eternity, we become a part of that thing called "family history".

Michael

PS: I knew it was a harbinger of a shift in my universe when my youngest asked his brother to help him "make a list of all the typical things Dad would say to us growing up. You know: "Dad-isms", like, "Whatever you do, don't get caught with your yah-yah's hangin' out!".

 
Our kids are in late forties to 52 years old. Our sons are the bossiest

On the last visit home, eldest son disputed my desire to have my car painted. "It has chips", I said. "It is 18 years old and still looks new inside and out, son said. " It is a Lexus SUV, it is my baby, and I want to keep it looking nice, " I retorted. Better Not, he said back to me.'
Harumph!
Daughter never bosses me...that amazes me that the boys would be the bossy ones!

 
We couldn't affort Ethan Allen furniture, but I would cut up the catalog and make rooms for my

dolls. The house had big sweeping staircase made of stacked World Book encyclopedias.

What can I say...I watched a lot of 40's musicals.

 
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