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Like a dove taking flight for the first time

When is your child old enough? at 18? when they go to college? At some point we all have to let our children go. Go off in the world and make successes and errors of their own. Hope that the way they were raised prevents unexpected developments, jail sentences and things of that nature. It is difficult. I will be the first to admit that I am struggling. My eldest daughter is off to college in the fall, and while I understand that it is a part of the growing up process, I don’t want to let her go. Like a good friend said… “if there was an award for worry, every parent would be nominated…” With love in my heart, I let her go like a dove taking flight after learning how to fly. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Lies and other fun stuff – life with a klepto part 2

We were up late due to the excitement of fireworks, a fire pit and s’mores. To bed at 3am and up at 6am. what a joy. David had my cell phone this morning, so friends, if you received either a text message or an email from my phone this morning, it wasn’t me. So I am looking for someone to put an electrical outlet into a cabinet so I can plug my phone in at night and lock it up at the same time. Any takers? I took the phone back. Battery is dead. A short while later, the door to upstairs magically opened. (It is locked to keep David out of his siblings things.) So the search began for my keys. I found them. A quick check shows that the key to the door is missing, as well as the keys to the locks. “I don’t know how the

Three dads, four mothers? What’s next?

I consider myself to be a pretty liberal kind of guy, but this proposed legislation has me a bit uneasy. The bill, currently making its way through the Calfornia legislature, would give children the right to legally have more than two parents. State Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat (what else?) from San Francisco, says that “The bill brings California into the 21st century, recognizing that there are more than ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ families today.” Leno apparently got the idea for the bill (SB1476) from a 2011 court case in which a young girl was ordered into foster care when her legally married parents (two women) weren’t around to care for her. Mom number 1 was in jail; Mom 2 was in the hospital. The girl had a relationship with her biological father, but apparently the court wasn’t able to give him custody. The proposed legislation—which has already passed the State