About your Family Quiz:
Okay, the fonts and spaces were messed up on this entry. I tried to fix it but I am just too spacey to work on it tonight.
- Who’s the smartest person in your family? Me? Ha, ha, ha. Not a chance, folks! I would probably go with Michael or Chris.
- What is your dad really good at? My dad is a hard worker. He is also really great at drawing and woodworking. I think he is very creative in that respect.
- What can you do better than dad? I can play instruments, I don't know that my dad can play an instrument. But he can sing-that I've heard.
- How are you like mom? We like music, we like to read mysteries, we don't call people on the phone very often. She likes to give cooking advice, I like to take cooking advice.
- How are you different from mom? I like doing inventory at ZB, she doesn't. I tend to talk a lot more than she does. She likes watching TV, doing a crossword puzzle and sleeping all at the same time. It drives me bonkers to have the TV on and no one paying attention to it. We have that little discussion every single time we get together-right, Mom??
- How old is mom? Well, I am tactful enough to not say. Also because I don't really know. I can never remember it.
- How tall is dad? I don't know my dad's height. I know that he is tall by Ecuadorian standards and all of his family are rather tall.
- What one thing mom always says to you? I can only pick one?? No, no. I will pick a few classics that somehow I find myself saying.
-Sew buttons on ice cream (if you say "so?")
-If you don't like what's served, cook it yourself.
- If you moved back East....fill in appropriate "then" response. This is a favorite of my mother in law as well. :) They make a formidable team on this subject, btw.
-no supper, no dessert. (I say no dinner, no treats, a variation)
- son of a gun - I loved when my mom said this. I don't know why.
- Come on! (Ian likes to repeat this one)
- What did you and dad do together that you’ll always remember? Okay, my dad loves airplanes. I don't think he likes to actually fly in them, but he likes them. We used to get Carvel ice cream cones and drive over to the Dutchess County airport and watch the planes take off and land. One time, we went to Stewart airport. I think I will always remember that. My other favorite time was going to Ecuador with just him and me as a adult. He's pretty funny in his element and I love to hear him speak Spanish.
- How do you know that mom and dad love you? Well, I don't talk to either of my parents very often. We just aren't phone callers and we don't even email often. We also live across the country from everyone. My blog is the update for them really. But, I know that when we visit in person and have to leave, it is very hard to see the tears. And when we do talk, they wonder about us moving back East and hope that we will. And I know that they miss me and love me in their own way. And while they might not like it, they are teaching me an important lesson in learning to let go with love. I know someday I will have to watch my boys disappear into the big world and you have to learn to love from afar, no matter how hard that is and I think it is very, very hard.
2 comments:
Wow you got upset at me at the mere suggestion that Ian was turning into a toddler and not a baby amymore- but you already preparing for your seperation anxiety of them leaving home-Luckily I think you have many years to get used to the idea.
Although I had heard the saying Sew buttons on ice cream I never knew when to use it- I always reply to that saying-but they don't stick!
Actually at the dinner table you often say "No eats, no treats!"
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