May Already!!

Yes, time has flown by.
Months preparing for a 10 year old on a distant field trip paid off. A lesson we cannot teach our children is independance and self-reliance. So at the ripe age of ten, a trip to Chicago with the school friends became their reality. Successfully they returned home, (darn) with lessons learnt about life, city and Chicago, how to pack for a trip and most of all, listening to experience.

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Reasons why politics is not in our future:
1. we still have trouble with left and right
2. we cannot negotiate, I usually give things away (aka garage sale becomes a free for all), on the other hand he is the other extreme, he bargains too hard the buyers run away.
3. we have too much heart and not enough skin
4. I can deal with numbers, spreadsheets, databases but not Corruption
5. Text messaging is too hard for these old eyes, the screen is too small and it takes too long to say, "huh?"
6. no one will take us out for courtesy dinners, the dinner tab is more than their donation
7.we do not wear flip flops
8.our names cannot rhyme too well for nick names

Finally...
9. we cannot tell a lie (have to set an example to the kids)