Text 4668, 122 rader
Skriven 2006-08-21 22:47:38 av hap newsom (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: Macaroni Grill                                           [1]
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Hi shortimer!
-> 
-> -> Typical of a military kid. (G)  To be honest, I not interested in what's
-> -> become of most of my classmates anyhow.  A few, yes, but not even a
-> -> tenth, I'd say.  That would be 6.3 people. (G)
->  hn> ->
->  hn> Same here, I still live in the town where I graduated high school and
->  hn> I only see about 3 of my old classmates on any sort of regular basis.
->  hn> I see more of my old college friends, or even my Navy shipmates (at
->  hn> least I correspond with them regularly) than my high school
->  hn> classmates.
-> 
-> I'd say we keep in touch with mostly people we've met thru the military,
-> most now retired military but a fair number of civilians as well. We do
-> keep in touch with a couple of my college friends, mostly at Christmas
-> tho.  They live about an hour from my parents.
-> 
Our Christmas card list is about 160 cards..those are friends that matter 
enough to us that we keep in contact with them. 
In fact just got some bad news a bit ago; one of my old girlfriends who ended 
up marrying my roomate just passed away after a long battle with bone 
cancer. It was/is a real blow, they were great friends even though we live on 
opposite sides of the country.

-> ->  hn> We still talk with Amanda often, and happily she enjoys our 
company
-> ->  hn> almost as much as we enjoy hers (grin).  When she went off to
->  hn> college
->  hn> ->
-> -> It's safe to say the same about our two.
->  hn> ->
->  hn> Yup we're lucky to have better kids than we were (grin)! At least
->  hn> that's the case for me!!
-> 
-> Same here.  I was talking with the new battalion commander's wife last
-> night and realised Robert is now a month younger than Deborah was when
-> Steve went into the Army. That kid is growing up too fast!
-> 
Time does not slow down for any of us!

-> ->  hn> and me and maybe just a tiny bit less on Anne who turned out to 
be
->  hn> the
-> ->  hn> "strongest" of the three of us.
->  hn> ->
-> -> I remember. (G)  Be glad you had the phone and internet.
->  hn> ->
->  hn> Amen and AMEN!!
-> 
-> Deborah has the same cell phone provider we do so calls are free back
-> and forth with her.  Rachel and David have a different provider but
-> we've all got enough minutes we can chat often.  Steve is also using
-> Skype at home to talk to her.
-> 
Amanda has the same provider as Anne and I do, so we chat often.
-> 
-> -> -> Our girls took it as a matter of course, since before Steve went in 
the
-> -> -> Army, we lived in NC and all the rest of the family lived in NY.  It
was
-> 
-> ->  hn> We took it as a matter of course as well...not like we had any say 
in
-> ->  hn> the matter anyway. It was the way it was....but in retrospect I 
felt
-> ->  hn> that it was not fair and thusly I didn't do it to my child...didn't
-> 
-> -> Our economic situation changed for the better when Steve went into 
the
-> -> Army.  Don't know what it would have done or where we would have
-> -> very good for them in others--they were in on history, first hand as we
-> -> were stationed in Berlin when the wall came down.  The broader world
-> -> view they have now is a positive result of their being raised in the
-> 
->  hn> Oh my life was not one of pure unending misery, I certainly did what I
->  hn> could to make the best of the situation and all in all I think I came
->  hn> out pretty well.
-> 
-> It sounds like you did fairly well from what I've read previously.  Just
-> think, you were eating criossants and drinking evian water before they
-> became "the" thing to do. (G)
-> 
Yup!
-> 
->  hn> But when I look at some of the things I missed out on I realize why 
my
->  hn> views are the way they are today. Some of my experiences I would 
not
->  hn> trade for anything...seeing the Notre Dame Cathedral at dawn for the
->  hn> first time is awe inspiring, the pyrimids at dawn are breathtaking.
->  hn> Canoeing down the Danube for a week was an adventure of a
->  hn> lifetime...as was the first time I saw the Follies Bergere! But I
-> 
-> And how many times have you been to Europe since?
-> 
None! LOL

->  hn> certainly missed the stability of having extended family nearby during
->  hn> those formative years.
-> 
-> That's where we had it good in that Steve didn't go in until the girls
-> were a bit older.  They knew extended family, even if we didn't see them
-> but maybe once a year.
-> 
Oh I knew my cousins and such, my dad got out of the airforce for a bit after 
WWII and went back in for Korea. So I lived in the small town where they 
grew up for a time as well. And I loved being around all my cousins.

-> ->  hn> lost in and beat up in. New bullies, new customs, and rules. Sure
-> 
-> -> Our girls actually adapted quite well to the changes.  The one that may
-> 
->  hn> There are always bullies (either physical or emotional) to be dealt
->  hn> with in life
-> 
-> Or as I say, the cockroaches in paradise. (G)
-> 
Great big ones sometimes! 
chat with you soon
hap 
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