Those kinds of days are nearly gone at my house, and I miss them. Maybe it’s time to start looking forward to the days when I’ll have grandchildren running around my house. That would be nice.

You’re obviously a good mother if your son is comfortable having his friends come to your house.

She’s the best mother that I know, no really she is. The lad is one very, very lucky boy!
I miss having bunches of kids running in and out too. The place we are in is not what you would call kid friendly lol. The elderly lady that lives down the hall whips open her door if she even hears anyone in the hall. We are the only ones that use that hall, so she knows it is my kids. Yeash.
Kate I would like to try and make it over this week if I can to see the lad, well you too, but mostly him lol. Not sure how the week is going to go. I HAVE to get my shopping done Friday and Saturday. So it might be after Christmas :( I should know better tonight or tomorrow. Not sure what E’s schedule is for the rest of the week.

Sounds like a nice kind of busy.  I hope the cookies were good.

Cas
And that you got to taste one.

I, too, miss those days Pablo and unlike you, will most likely not have any grandchildren to enjoy them with again.  One son just barely manages to take care of himself, his girlfriend of several years is a little vague on the concept of saving money and the other one and his wife are (sadly) having difficulties in that area so.........and we would have been the best grandparents too.  Oh well, that is the way it goes sometimes!!
However, they will all be home for the holidays and their assorted friends and significant others, etc. will be as well, so there will be some in and outs at my house...while they are all much more into martinis and munchies these days, it is amazing how a couple batches of cookies brings the kid out in them.  Have had requests for pizzelli’s and canolli’s and sugar cookies and gingerbread people!!

Well Cassie, I did get to eat two of the cookies. As soon as the hungry horde smelled cookies baking they came clattering down the stairs and hovered in the kitchen until I took them out of the oven. The cookies didn’t have a chance to cool off very much. But I made up another batch of dough and put it in the fridge for today. Those aren’t for public consumption.

J you are always welcome here, you know that. Just come over when you can. He’s looking forward to seeing you and I think there’s a thank you in there, too. His friends are so impressed with his room that they made sure they picked up everything before they left and even came downstairs to put some stuff in the trash. One of the boys said, “I love what you did with his room!” LOL! All we did was clean it!!!

Pablo, grandchildren aren’t on my radar screen yet, but I think that I’m going to love being a grandma, too. And you’re going to make a terrific grandpa! I can just see you taking them out on hikes at Roundrock and having their little backpacks filled with all sorts of neat stuff and their heads filled with the coolest stories. Maybe a round rock or two, too.

I really like the lad’s friends and I enjoy having the house full of them. They’re good kids. This really is fun for me.

Cyn, you can make canollis?? Can I come over??!

You know, I’ve seen a couple of friends’ kids spend years as free spirits and then suddenly something happens and they have marriage and kids and dogs and cats and mortgages. And it seems as if they become more stable than the ones you’d have expected to follow that route, because, I think, it was a conscious choice and one they put considerable thought into (and fighting against) before they went that route. You just never know.

I hope your other son and daughter in law find some resolution in the children department. There is so much pain involved in not being able to have kids when that’s what they want so badly. It’s a long road to finding peace with it and being able to think about other options.