By Georgia Osten
Oh my gosh, I thought I’d have an accident I was laughing so hard. I’m forbidden from telling the story, but this brought back so many memories of raising our children, the shenanigans they would get into and the lessons we tried to teach them. Our youngest daughter, who is getting close to 40, remembers going to a friend’s house, seeing a really neat ring made out of a dollar bill. She thought it was so neat, she took it. When Daddy saw it, he realized it was really a five dollar bill, she admitted to taking it, and Daddy told her she’d have to take it to school and return it to her little friend and admit what she’d done. Realizing Daddy would check, she merely threw it away at school so it couldn’t be found.
After Matthew got his license, he was allowed to drive his cool truck to school, but he had to take his younger sister with him. Their schools were next door to each other, Strake and St. Agnes. One night at dinner, Kelly told how her brother drives too fast. He immediately had his cool truck taken away and had to drive Dad’s Not So Cool Crown Vic to school. It was one of those old big white company cars! Not cool at all!
One evening some co-workers reported to me they had seen our oldest daughter at a little college hang out. Of course she wasn’t old enough to be at this little college hangout. I left work in a rage to begin my search. She called her Dad, “where is Mom?” He told her as calmly as he could that “Mom is out looking for you.”
Many TALKS, and a lot of losses of privileges later, we can look back on these events and chuckle, but thank God they survived.
What goes around, comes around.
I just can’t help but chuckle when I hear of things my grandchildren do and how their parents are handling these situations. And then, the other day when the 11 year old told her Mother, “We have to talk,” I thought I would lose it!
GO’s Sand Bucket is only one beach bum’s journal of life at the beach, probably something each of you can relate to. Please feel free to email me with your thoughts, visions and/or feelings of just exactly what the beach means to you. Email: [email protected]
[7-1-2019]
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