Last night we had a visitor ... in the middle of the night .... well, 5:30 but that can still count as middle of the night.
Do you ever wake up and just have a sense? You don't even know what that sense is, it's just a sense. Well, after laying in bed a bit and listening to the sounds from the kitchen, bread drawer opening, fridge opening (and shutting! Not so the bread drawer - clue #1), shuffling around, a little clearing of the throat, it was obvious this person knew what he was doing and actually felt quite at home in my kitchen. My brave husband drug his tired self out of bed and wandered into the kitchen weapon-less!
Surely by now you realize that we know who this is and there is absolutely NO panic!
Just our deer-hunting son who drove 2 1/2 hours home from college, in the middle of the night to go hunting. Starting to live life at 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning is no big deal to college students! However when I had a quick 15 minute chat with him at 5:00pm when he had drug himself out of his tree-stand and came home to drive back to college, he informed me that one of his roomates did tell him he was crazy!
He has a test tomorrow so I'm hoping the endless hours in the tree-stand served him well as I'm sure he had all kinds of study guides and index cards in his posession!
This isn't the first time we've had a Night Visitor and I'm pretty sure it won't be the last!
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Life with almost grownups!
A glimpse of what happens when your kids begin to grow up.
Thursday night, late because Mitch had to finish something on his truck, Dave & him left for his first official college visit. And this happened only because we forced the issue. Mitch is thinking he has at least until next August to visit and decide on a college! Anyway, they headed south to Vincennes to check out the "college of choice" on Mitch's very short list. Vincennes is the university where Mitch received a one-year paid scholarship, because of his first place finish at the state level, at Skills USA last spring. He competed in a Small Engine Technology contest. So ... anyway, off they went, about a 5 hour drive. Spent several hours on campus, and then had to hurry back home so Mitch could go to bed early. Yeah right! Remember he's 17! He said he needed to sleep so he wouldn't fall asleep in his tree stand this morning. Don't all of you know that today was a Deer Hunter's Holiday???? It is the opening day of shotgun season! WooHoo! I'm really not sure what time he went to bed, but it wasn't before midnight, thanks to the company of Tucker and making food, banging pots and pans in my kitchen! He was up bright and early at 6:00am to hit the tree stand. I texted him (the only way to communicate with him) about 10:00am and asked if he was OK. His reply - "No, I'm dead"! I know I've got to quit worrying so much. So what if he's all alone in a big woods with a huge powerful shotgun. Why should I worry, I put him in God's hands many years ago! Today he didn't get anything, but there's still many weeks left! Tonight, as Mitch was leaving for a rodeo, he asked/told me he's going to ride a bull! I, as any loving Mother would do, hit the roof! He laughed and told me he couldn't anyway, since he's not 18 yet. So, I've only got until February to NOT worry about bull riding!
Then our other adult, Alli, came to our house tonight with her wonderful friend, Kyle. (see, I said I'd use your name) We had promised her a double date to Olive Garden for her birthday, which was on October 31. Olive Garden is her favorite spot! So off we went, and her wonderful roomie, Jocelyn, stayed with Kevin & Abbi. There is something so rewarding, when as parents you can sit and have adult conversation that has meaning, with your very own child. Yes, I remember the days when we couldn't even "reason" with her ... but that was a long time ago! We actually reminisced about the dreaded wooden spoon. And Alli told Dad about the time that her and Mitch took the spoon to the fire pit and burned it! I knew about this, but obviously Dad didn't. We had a good laugh about that one. When we got home, Abbi & Jocelyn had made brownies and had Abbi's bunnies in the house and were just having a great time!
So that was life for our Big kids this week. Oh and I almost forgot ... ND won! wow!
Thursday night, late because Mitch had to finish something on his truck, Dave & him left for his first official college visit. And this happened only because we forced the issue. Mitch is thinking he has at least until next August to visit and decide on a college! Anyway, they headed south to Vincennes to check out the "college of choice" on Mitch's very short list. Vincennes is the university where Mitch received a one-year paid scholarship, because of his first place finish at the state level, at Skills USA last spring. He competed in a Small Engine Technology contest. So ... anyway, off they went, about a 5 hour drive. Spent several hours on campus, and then had to hurry back home so Mitch could go to bed early. Yeah right! Remember he's 17! He said he needed to sleep so he wouldn't fall asleep in his tree stand this morning. Don't all of you know that today was a Deer Hunter's Holiday???? It is the opening day of shotgun season! WooHoo! I'm really not sure what time he went to bed, but it wasn't before midnight, thanks to the company of Tucker and making food, banging pots and pans in my kitchen! He was up bright and early at 6:00am to hit the tree stand. I texted him (the only way to communicate with him) about 10:00am and asked if he was OK. His reply - "No, I'm dead"! I know I've got to quit worrying so much. So what if he's all alone in a big woods with a huge powerful shotgun. Why should I worry, I put him in God's hands many years ago! Today he didn't get anything, but there's still many weeks left! Tonight, as Mitch was leaving for a rodeo, he asked/told me he's going to ride a bull! I, as any loving Mother would do, hit the roof! He laughed and told me he couldn't anyway, since he's not 18 yet. So, I've only got until February to NOT worry about bull riding!
Then our other adult, Alli, came to our house tonight with her wonderful friend, Kyle. (see, I said I'd use your name) We had promised her a double date to Olive Garden for her birthday, which was on October 31. Olive Garden is her favorite spot! So off we went, and her wonderful roomie, Jocelyn, stayed with Kevin & Abbi. There is something so rewarding, when as parents you can sit and have adult conversation that has meaning, with your very own child. Yes, I remember the days when we couldn't even "reason" with her ... but that was a long time ago! We actually reminisced about the dreaded wooden spoon. And Alli told Dad about the time that her and Mitch took the spoon to the fire pit and burned it! I knew about this, but obviously Dad didn't. We had a good laugh about that one. When we got home, Abbi & Jocelyn had made brownies and had Abbi's bunnies in the house and were just having a great time!
So that was life for our Big kids this week. Oh and I almost forgot ... ND won! wow!
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