costs of kids
theKid participated in a sports camp/competition recently. Results were not as hoped. However. theKid performed quite well, achieving top ten status in most of the events, and top twenty status in the others. For a point of reference, there was roughly maybe 300-500 participants, skill levels from newbie to vet. Anyhoo, theKid had one flub …
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Half and theKid returned from their travels, and I must say – family is everything. Unless it isn’t. Methinks if I had not succumbed to marriage, and if Half had not insisted on being fruitful and multiplying, I believe I would not have missed what I did not have. Let me explain (or not … …
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theKid recently expressed some frustration with the foolishness of grown folks … and youth sports. Yeh, the kids think the parents are dumb too. And kids always bear the burden of a parent’s mistakes. Ergo, to wit: my parents split before I hit kindergarten, totally destroyed the family, and the scars from that destruction have …
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Guy sought the opinions of the internets. Seems he was a bit of a germaphobe, bodily functions of most sort grossed him all the WTF out. Actually suffered traumatic, physical reactions (anxiety, panic attack, seizures) when confronted with the human nasties … also had epilepsy or some such, needed a full eight every night of …
Wonder if Methuselah celebrated his 969th birthday. Probably not. I’m early on the downslope and already entirely over it. But then again my birthday has always sucked. A sign, prr’aps? Most years Half doesn’t even remember the day … although if I were to forget Half’s birthday the heavens would fall, water would cease to …
Reading is excellent, inexpensive fun. Portable, reliable, no need to charge. Can even do it for free, at least used to. Haven’t been to the library in a minute(open on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10am to 11:15, and hurry up!) This may surprise you (Other Person, You) but I spent the majority of my recesses …
When you don’t have kids, you’re incredibly self-centered. And when you do, you become even more so. Methinks: how could you not? There a little half version of you walking about in the world. If anyone has had a child after, say, 2010, methinks the decision stems more from hubris than the notion that the …
Methinks me wonders at times the amount of a child’s potential lost because the adults don’t know how to adult. Mentioned (several times) before that theKid is involved in sports, like heavily, like more than one team/sport/activity. Anyhoo … There are some kids on some of those teams who only play intermittently because – get …
Know what’s equal parts horrible and great? Not knowing the prices of things, and buying them anyway. Not talking cars, or houses, or dunno, jewelry, nothing like that. Just the everyday stuff that winds up in the cart and then on the card and then on home. Instance: theKid has a thing for naan bread. …
Got to thinking (always dangerous) about the difference in a woman who demands to be a wife before becoming a mother, and a woman who defaults to babymama (aka “BM” coz her life has turned to sh—). A woman’s greatest weakness is her only weapon — the ability, desire/willingness to breed. Unlike the sea louse, …
