San Antonio Off Topic Thread (Houston, Dallas: lessons, conversion, get married)

[mojokitty]

Can I just say...this is TOTALLY off topic....

If I have to watch the Curious George movie one more time with him...I'm going to yell!!!

[the_dimwit]

lol...That's what I say about driving the minivan and hearing the "Land Before Time" theme song over...and over...and over...etc.

We're leaving for a road trip to Northern VA in a few weeks. I already told the wife that we get new DVDs or the kids find their own rides.

--Dim

[mojokitty]

Originally Posted by the_dimwit

lol...That's what I say about driving the minivan and hearing the "Land Before Time" theme song over...and over...and over...etc.

We're leaving for a road trip to Northern VA in a few weeks. I already told the wife that we get new DVDs or the kids find their own rides.

--Dim

haha! I had to buy a new DVD player for the car because the other one broke. I made sure there was a place for headphones for him. Let's just say, the trip from here to Houston was a long one with no player. Oh, and I used to say "we're never going to have a dvd player in the car for our kids...blah blah blah" Now...total change of heart!

I don't think we own a Land Before Time. Maybe we should start a kid movie swaping thing on here!

[the_dimwit]

One requirement for a minivan was a DVD player with headphone jacks for all. Unfortunately, the 4 year old doesn't like to wear them right now, so we have to listen to whatever she watches.

For the record, I would NEVER attempt another road trip without the DVD player. It is the best thing since internal combustion.

Also, I read your last statement as "...we should start a kid swapping thing..." lol

--Dim

[mojokitty]

Originally Posted by the_dimwit

One requirement for a minivan was a DVD player with headphone jacks for all. Unfortunately, the 4 year old doesn't like to wear them right now, so we have to listen to whatever she watches.

For the record, I would NEVER attempt another road trip without the DVD player. It is the best thing since internal combustion.

Also, I read your last statement as "...we should start a kid swapping thing..." lol

--Dim

The kid swaping thing....that's funny! Nope, my kid is all I could handle! Plus, most other parents have more than one kid and that would NOT work for us! It's a one for one deal here. No one for two....though my guy is enough work to equal 2 kids!

[jules07]

LOL!! Yep sapphire, I was raised Catholic too, so I understand the guilt thing! (and I too, mean no offense to anyone by that ). And no mojo, none of my fave bands during that time. We "believed" that stuff for about 4 years, and it took losing our oldest daughter (she ran away/left home the day before Father's Day) to wake us up and shake us out of it. I say "us", but it was mainly me. My hubby wasn't quite as sold on it as I was. We didn't have any contact with her for almost 6 months, and it's been a healing process all these years between us and her & her husband (she got married about 3 months after she left home).

I don't really beat myself up about it anymore, but I did for a while. Since my kids seem (relatively) well adjusted now, very happy, and our family is SO close ~ I feel like we've come thru it all for the better. So, while the whole thing was incredibly difficult and terribly painful, it was necessary and served its purpose. AND, I'm so fortunate that my bigger kids are insightful and have each expressed to me that they understand and can see that everything that I "believed" was because of my deep desire for them to be happy, to feel incredibly loved, all that. I wuv my kids!!

The "why I don't go to to church anymore" story will hafta wait for another day, tho! LOL!!!

[Texan in Virginia]

Originally Posted by the_dimwit

lol...That's what I say about driving the minivan and hearing the "Land Before Time" theme song over...and over...and over...etc.

We're leaving for a road trip to Northern VA in a few weeks. I already told the wife that we get new DVDs or the kids find their own rides.

--Dim

Where in northern Virginia? I'll be driving the reverse (northern VA to Canyon Lake) in 7 weeks. What route are you taking?

Lori

[Texan in Virginia]

Originally Posted by the_dimwit

Also, I read your last statement as "...we should start a kid swapping thing..." lol

--Dim

So did I and I haven't stopped laughing! Part of that, of course, is today is the last of 5 days at Vacation Bible School so I'm more than a little loopy.

Lori

[the_dimwit]

Lori,

We lived in Ashburn Village up until last August, when I got a job in SA. I moved the wife and kids down in September. I've been back "up there" many times since then (work-related, sad to say), but this will be the first time that the rest of my family will join.

On the way up, we're taking a northerly route (through Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, Bristol, TN and on up I-81). The route back will take us "down south" through Knoxville, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge, and Houston. Should be a great trip--I finally get to use some of the Marriott points I've built up over the past year!

--Dim

[jules07]

I wish I knew how to record sound and post it on here! To show you just how incredibly WEIRD my family is now ~ my almost 22 year old daughter is in the shower, getting ready for work. She's singing (errrrrrrr shouting at the top of her lungs!) one of the songs from The Little Mermaid. (especially shouting the "bet they don't reprimand their daughters"! LOL!!)