Posts Tagged ‘LA’

My youngest son aged 26 complains when I call him a baby. Let’s face it. He will always be just that to me–MY BABY. I remember giving birth to him 25 years ago au naturale at home. It was not supposed to be that way. In fact on the evening in question I went to [...]

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Baby Boy LA spent five years in the Navy working on helicopters. He told his war stories about how mechanics do not actually make as many helicopter repairs as you would think; they simply replace helicopter parts. It is safer and easier to completely refit an entire helicopter rotor system than to take a chance [...]

Mama told me there’d be days like this…. I find myself vicariously living all the experiences I passed on for marriage and family. LA recently returned from deployment in the Middle East. He had liberty in Thailand, and his stories of the country whetted my appetite. I’d love to travel again and one of those [...]

Hubby and Baby Boy (grown up into LA) are television junkies. They watch everything including infomercials. One day I found them sitting at the table making lists. They wanted to buy the 40 year old ranch down the road, unoccupied for a couple of years. It seems that they were watching Flip This House and [...]

Back when my sons were teens in high school, they came home telling me stories of how the fire alarm had been pranked day after day. It had gotten to the point that the administration and its teachers were announcing, “Disregard the alarm,” without stopping to check it out. That is scary. All of us [...]

Years ago my newly married daughter took a job as a nanny to help out. Since she didn’t earn much and had just bought a new car, she decided to supplement her income with a part-time evening job with an industrial cleaning supply company that contracted with the local banks. One time she was called [...]