10 Things Your Dad Never Said

10. Well, how about that! I'm lost. Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions.

9. You know, Lisa, now that you're thirteen, you'll be ready for unchaperoned car dates. Won't that be fun?

8. Don't worry, I can pick out a car for you now that you are sixteen.  Come on, it will only take an hour or two and you'll be driving your first car. 

7. Here's $50 bucks Mike. Go crazy!

6. What do you mean you want to be different than your friends?  You have to do the same things that they do, son.  So if they jump off a bridge I want you to jump right after them.

5. Your mother and I are going away for the weekend Jenny. You might want to consider throwing a party.

4. You know now that you are a teenager you can stay out as late as you want.  Curfews are not necessary for you kids.

3. No son of mine is going to live under this roof without an earring. Now, quit your belly aching and let's go to the mall.

2. Why do you want to go and get a job? I make plenty of money for you to spend.

1. Father's Day? Ah, don't worry about that. It's no big deal!

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Theodore Hesburgh

Monday is Wash Day

Monday, Monday, ......., So good to me.......

Well, it's washday and have to do it!  Getting ready for a couple of days at the beach.  The weather is perfect for some lounging and watching the tide roll in. 

Speaking of washday, it reminds me of how easy we have it nowadays.  I remember Grandma had a wash house behind her home and actually spent all day out in the heat rolling clothes through her old rickety wash tub.  Yeah, it had an electric agitator but she had to manually send the clothes through a ringer to get all the water out of 'em.  Then she had to hang 'em on the line.  Gads!, what a chore.  She starched all of grandpa's shirts and they would almost stand up by themselves.  After taking them down from the line she would have a coke bottle filled with water and a cork stopper to sprinkle them with, roll them up and then would start the ironing process.  What she could not finish in one day, she would stick the remainder in the refrigerator for the next day.  WOW!  do we have it easy today.

Can you believe she really said that????  And why does she look so happy????
Although I did see a kid at church yesterday who looked like he had slept in his clothes. lol!  Most Moms today don't believe in ironing anything.  Yepper, times have really changed.  I don't mean to sound so old but "I AM".  And to be honest with you, I don't iron much of anything these days.  I have been known to just stick a shirt back in the dryer with a wet washcloth to see if I can vanish some of the wrinkles.  Laziness =  a lack of desire to expend effort.  And although cotton may be more comfortable, I always look for the tag marked 50/50.

Well, there goes the buzzer (Another thing Grandma didn't have!) have to get busy folding and hanging.  Wish me luck with my wrinkles (on Clothes and myself....).