(...But it is a very necessary step in their growing up to be a functional adult, and in the parent/s being able to step out and be an individual/s with personal interests again rather than being primarily being only a parent with life centered around the child/ren).
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Good to hear your co-worker is recovering, Duchess; not good to hear that it was stress-related....
I have done nothing interesting today. Not a single thing. Which is somewhat better than yesterday, when we had an earthquake.
This time I told them to bring a needle with 25 stitches already cast on, so we can move on to actually knitting something. 
They're both going to Grace's school and doing great. We've been to mountains and movies and Parent's Night and...and we're going to a barbecue up in Santa Fe Saturday. The boys, understandably have tough moments adjusting with, now, both birth Mom and Dad on extended orange jumpsuit vacations and having the lynchpin of their family, Grandpa Sam, succumb to cancer Saturday night. Grandma is picking them up tonight to attend the Rosary, and I'm taking everyone o/o school tomorrow to attend the passing ritual. 
) so now I'm still ahead this summer 10-3. I'm going to a meeting with my State Senator tonight and marching for Move On! in the state fair parade at the crack of ass Saturday for, Medicare, Social Security and Jobs--with a bunch of silly ass democrats (I'm the anti-party party)...the kids have been walking me and the dog every night-I'm getting healthy (OMG! 
