This was an exciting
weekend and weekend and next week as lots happening
Besides Beauty's
dance show which I posted on separately - we had our wonderful friends the CDF
gang ( family of 7) over for the long weekend . It was cool as we were all
together but also had our individual family commitments like the dance show and
mother visits etc . It was a great weekend as usual filled with tons of yummy
food and restaurants , great walks and talks.
The funniest part ever was when they got here before us and wanted the wifi code so their eldest son texted Chase to ask him
" cock-slap-dick56"
Chase!!!!!!!!
And they believed him (based on the mere fact we named our christmas Elf "Balls ") so there they all sat typing in this wifi obscene code and trying it different ways with capitals etc..
This goes down as one the funniest memories of my life -for real.
The funniest part ever was when they got here before us and wanted the wifi code so their eldest son texted Chase to ask him
" cock-slap-dick56"
Chase!!!!!!!!
And they believed him (based on the mere fact we named our christmas Elf "Balls ") so there they all sat typing in this wifi obscene code and trying it different ways with capitals etc..
This goes down as one the funniest memories of my life -for real.
What was really
different about this visit was that it mirrored our real lives very distinctly
: our kids are no longer kids for the most part they are now all teens or
almost teens or just out of teenhood . And having 8 of these creatures together
... Does present some challenges !
To sum it up : Alone
together . Yes all the seem to do is stare at their individual screens unless
literally forced to do otherwise . Every moment of the weekend .
And that part really
irritated the adults . All of us .We even had a debate about it with one of the
teens which was cool in and of itself and got them off their phones for a while
in order to debate ! At least they were all engaged in this part and cool to
hear the different perspectives that are mostly generational
It was hard though as
tough to see a bunch of teens so excited to see eachother and so alone being
together . Made me very worried about this generation and what I may
have done as a parent to not prevent this .
It has all moved from
more family visits to more adult visits with kids sitting around staring at
their phones . Thank goodnessnes for their two younger ones who brought some
life to the party !
Despite all they are all wonderful and good kids-just a rough stage!
Thank goodness Savvy
and I are both the type of moms that force them at points to do otherwise so
there were moments of chatting with meals and walks and activities etc but not
enough of them .
Yet felt so good for
us adults to realize we are leading parallel lonely lives and face many of the
same reality and challenges of raising adolescents
Then we stayed up
late all catching up and debating after beauty dance show and then I left for a
business trip in Peru early Sunday
morning. They
all stayed and
spent the day with hubby and our kids and then by end of afternoon all went
their separate ways with lots on schedule before our trip to Italy at the end
of this week
Our gang went up to
cottage and got all the summer stuff organized and CDF's moved onto savvy moms
place for a visit
I don't even have a
picture of the
visit of the kids !!! I wonder why ? (They all roll their eyes at me too much ?
I give up trying ?)
At least I have a few
great pics of the adults ! From our long walk to the village for icecream ( we
sent the kids on their own )
Was a great visit and always is. So thankful for these wonderful friends
