Family means a lot of things to a lot of people. For some it’s a comedy for some it’s a tragedy. For me it has begun to seem like the final scene from Parenthood, where Steve Martin realizes that it is all one big roller coaster ride. You buys your ticket and you takes your cherce was the saying we had in our family growing up. Take the good with the bad.
It’s been mostly good. An easy coaster, no death defying loop de loops. Still I have to come to terms with having people in my space who don’t do things the same way I do, and let it go. Yes Dad, I mean you setting the thermostat above 70 all day???????
The other side of it is being with people who know you, and love you, most of the time. Also watching my daughter tell Wonder Sweetie that she calls him Step Dad while away at college. A major break through. Listening to that sent me off to bed (late) with a smile on my face. I woke up from a dream because I was laughing in it. Not something that normally happens.
I’m off to ride the roller coaster a few more times. See ya on the next go around?
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March 24, 2010 at 9:04 am
Sharon Stevens
Well, Congrats! on your engagement, your daughters, your life! I’m impressed. How did our Marc get so durn lucky? (btw, it’s Sharon, his co-worker at OTB Consulting…his fellow ‘crazy’ person at work. We crazies have to stick together! Ha Ha. I love your blog. You seem like a wonderful person…and I mean it, about the knitting. For some reason, perhaps my heart knew I was going to soon be a grandmother this year, and it wants to ‘knit’. I knitted as a child and 3 years ago, bought a basket full of yarn, with no one to knit it into something. I wanted to knit my daughter a scarf..but time has passed. Now, a month away from becoming a ‘Grammy’, I have that urge to knit some ‘booties’, or a blankie. My Mother did so for my daughter, 26 years ago (and my Mom and I are not close and never have been really). Sad stuff, but I want to be different for my daughter and grand baby. Anyway, perhaps I will learn again. Have a wonderful life and thank you, for loving that crazy guy Marc. He sure ‘beams’ when he speaks of you!
March 26, 2010 at 6:24 am
tracybird
Hi Sharon,
I’m not sure how I got so lucky, so late in life to find the such a great guy.