I was dreading the teen years but it's actually the most fun the boys have been. My oldest is a junior in high school and the youngest is a freshman, so there isn't much of that time left. :sulk:

Yes. But that wasn't really the deal with 30. It was finally realizing you're never going to get that youth back. Aw well. Such is life.

I know the feeling, my daughter is a high school sophomore.

Recently turned 50 and wife and I bought a new Harley. Kids are gone from home and almost out of college, wife and I can eat what we want, have sex when we want and just do as we please. Being 50 is great so far! :thumb:

Are you planning on them leaving for College? I remember, you live out on the farm so they will be if they go, but are they going far? There are some fairly close ones, like DC3 etc. right?

Mine stayed home with us through her bachelors and most of her Masters, then we moved on her. :D

I hear ya, that was clearly part of my issue as well. Similar to getting a visectomy.(sp?)
Our eldest grandson is a senior. :Poke:

Maybe you should have started this thread.

:D

:LOL:It is a great thread, but you started it after my bed time last night, so I am catching up.

(jk, I watched the poker final until 3 this morning like an idiot)

Age reminds me of owning a boat. You will never have the biggest boat, and you will never be the oldest.

We live out in the sticks, so the closest university is over 100 miles away. There is also a chance that he'll move to Oregon and live with his grandparents for a year to gain residency and then go to school down there.

What's DC3?

I turned 24 in the Saudi desert a few days after the air campaign started so that was probably one of my worst birthdays.
When I turned 25 I had returned to Germany for my last year of service and had a blast, which was in no small part due to my buying a motorcycle and seeing the country side one back road at a time.

Yeah, you have some great benefits of raising kids where you are, but this isn't one of them.

Dodge City Community College, they had a pretty good rep when I was traveling out there a lot. Hays is a pretty good haul for you as well IIRC.

We live in Washington state. Those schools would be a really long haul. :D

Holy crap, sorry, I got you confused with someone else. I thought you were in western Kansas. I blame old age. :banghead:

For the double post, too?


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Good to hear, Ed. :thumb:

Hopefully your memory is still intact so that you don't forget to take your meds. :D

That must have been the computer, couldn't have been me.


That is what is really cool about the Mrs. sticking with me through all of this, that is her job and she does it well. :D