Family Update

Joe has moved out to California and is doing techie stuff Ashley married and moved out Molly is off to college and moved out with family with benefits status. Gunnar still at home in high school. With 2.5 kids moved out the insanity has died down and I am running out of material but going back to a normal life.

Head lights are for sissies

Gunnar, who is a very athletic boy, had taken it upon himself to drive us, brother and I, home from the movie theater. Gunnar, not to be one that needed assistance in life such as how to operate a vehicle, fired up the car. Besides, all 14-year-olds should already know how to operate a vehicle. I mentioned that his mom usually turns off the automatic lights and he probably needed to turn them back on. Without comment, he slams into reverse. Now the parking lot, full of expensive cars, had a lot of driving room before the exit. His brother casually suggests we should turn on the headlights. Gunnar mutters as he puts the car into drive and launches forward with acceleration. Again, his brother says we need to turn on the lights. Gunnar finally responds that he does not know where they are. The car is rapidly gaining speed as we head blindly into what is to become the ditch or a narrow exit to the parking lot. When we were 50ft of the ditch I panicked and screamed STOP. Nothing doing, Gunnar swerves right to the exit lane and turns onto the frontage road which is full of cars. At this point, it wasn’t if but how many cars are we going to hit? Finally, Gunnar realizes that "Hey the lights aren't on, and I can't see with all the oncoming cars blinding me with their headlights. Gunnar somehow spots a parking lot on the left. So off we accelerated in the oncoming lane as the cars in our lane were going too slow. As the head-on car lights stream towards us, he quickly jukes to the left into a parking lot just as the oncoming cars pass over our previous location. I swear instead of stopping, those cars had accelerated toward us. After he stopped what could I say other than, "Amazing driving" as the stunt performed resulted in no deaths and only 4 cars honking at us." Gunnar had no response as he was staring ahead through the windshield muttering something about “Can't believe we made it.” All I can say is a good thing mom wasn't in the car as there would have been a mess to clean up and a possible ER visit. Sigh

The Walmart Bag full of all it's glory

So the little one, princess, who had just finished high school was off to KU to be a doctor to make her family proud. Her mom had held her in high esteem as she was the one who stayed out of trouble in high schools, such as alcohol, sex, and drugs. Then one day, like yesterday, the little one asked her mom to find her glasses, not telling her that she had lost them on her last visit over a month ago. Mom with a stellar record on finding items could not find them. Then she shifted into high gear and started dissembling the house looking for those glasses for her little angle. Then she found it, the Walmart bag that contained items in it. Unimaginable items to be found sent mom into an emotional tailspin. The bag contained male protective gear, lots of it and a couple of used ones, the morning-after pill, and empty alcoholic bottles. Mom cried for about an hour and we are never to speak of it again, the Walmart bag.