Text 12319, 75 rader
Skriven 2008-08-18 17:11:15 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 12131 av Carol Shenkenberger (18453.cooks)
Ärende: pork in the crock pot                                    [2]
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Hi Carol,

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 >  > showing the signs of the young lady that is to come.
 CS>  >
 >  CS> Definately.  Half the time she wants to be a grownup, then some kid
 >  CS> stuff comes by and she's all over it!
 CS>  >
 > It will be like that for a long time if she's lucky.  Too many adults
 > don't let the kid in them come out to play but they need to from time to
 > time.

 CS> I've told Charlotte being a kid is a special time and to enjoy it.
 CS> She'll grow up all too soon anyways.  In less than 2 years, she'll be
 CS> able to drive a car (she's a hair under 15 now by a few months).  10th
 CS> grade, she WILL take drivers ed and shortly after we get we a license
 CS> then a car for her.  All the way up on that drive as various things
 CS> came to mind, I was teaching her basic driving and 'protective
 CS> driving'.

All too soon she will be out on her own.  Is she thinking college or the
military?

 > count that. Our first bit over a year in was very unstable (4 moves in
 > 15 months) but then we settled a bit.  Have to ask the girls what places
 > they remember.

 CS> Like most, apt to be anything before age 5 is 'gone with the winds'
 CS> except a remnant at best.  I recall living in Jacksonville just a
 CS> little, more of a 'we  lived someplace before Miami'.  I remember my
 CS> bother and sister and i
 CS> running hard as we could around the Miami house just as Mom bought it
 CS> (I was about 3). I recall there used to be a big ficus in the back
 CS> yard (neighbor poisened it Mom says about when we got the house).

I was 3 1/2 when we moved across the street into the house my parents
live in now.  I don't really remember living in the other place but
visited quite often as frineds lived there.  Now my younger brother owns
it.  Interestingly, the house my parents live in now is the first one
where the stove was/is electric; mom had used nothing but gas prior to
it and wasn't happy about the change.  Now she'd rather have the
electric.

 >  CS> Poor thing was miffed when this past Halloween came about and the
 >  CS> local rules say no trick or treating past age 13 (she was 14) but we

 > As long as it was OK in the neighborhood, then I don't see why she
 > couldn't have done so.  OTOH, if folks strongly objected, then I would
 > have had her toe the line (if she were mine).

 CS> It is.  The locals are not happy with the city rule.  In worry that
 CS> everyone would 'press the limit' they set it too low.  Charlotte's
 CS> experience is more about Sasebo on this one.

Maybe they will change it before this Halloween?

 > I don't recall an age limit in Germany but do know that we did it by
 > stair wells. Each family in the stair well contributed so much candy and

 CS> Age limits being imposed, have more to do with gangs and more recent
 CS> happenings.  A sigh of the times...

Sigh!

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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