<p>I lived in a great apartment on Cornell in Hyde Park right near the Theo Seminary for years. One bedroom, air, not too fancy but no bugs. I loved it - could walk to the IC and be in the loop in no time. I don’t know if the building is still there, or if the neighborhood has gone gentrified, gang, or other… Good luck to him.</p>
<p>When we were first married, we lived in a 396 sq ft apt in NYC, for two years. Can you spell tiny? One gets creative about storage. Plus, we never did find the answer to: “What’s wrong with having one’s guests sit on the bed?”</p>
<p>Poem for jym. If you were in 2nd grade still.</p>
<p>My two sons graduated.
Graduation is when you get to be done with going to your school.
I don’t know what happens when grownups are all done with school.
I don’t really know when people are grownups and not just kids any more.
But my sons are really cool and really fun and I like to play with them.
It was very sad that I couldn’t see my biggest son at graduation.
I wonder if he is a grownup yet.
I wonder if I am a grownup yet.
But I did get to see my younger son graduate. That was SO cool.
And I have a husband.
I wonder if he is a grownup yet.
Maybe we can all go out to dinner together. I miss my family.</p>
<p>Alu- Thank you so much for the glorious poem. Brought a much-needed smile on this bittersweet day. Happy, sad, moments --now of quiet, solitude as s is party-hopping… and I am feeling lonely. Reflecting back on tall the things I wish I had done with the boys. Realizing that there will be new, but different joys ahead. Turning the page on a new chapter. Feeling a bit melancholy. Don’t mean to bring the mood down in SA-- it is time to celebrate. Thanks again for the poem. You have a gift.</p>
<p>S#1 faxed a standard form lease for DH to look at. DS thinks it will be signed up early this week. He is hot to trot on this building/location. Fencersmother-its a huge building (actually 2 huge buildings) on 55th running between Blackstone and Dorchester. If you know the area, there is the 55th St. oval which goes around the buildings. The UPC condo. He’s renting a 1 bedroom from an absentee owner who seems like a nice guy. It’s in a much better location than he is now (south of the Midway) so much closer to the supermarket, what few restaurants there are in the neighborhood, etc. If he’s happy, I’m happy, Until I see the place, of course. ;)</p>
<p>Why on both Google and Yahoo is Mother’s Day marked with ducks? Ducks? We are ducks? We sat on some eggs and then our babies follow us wherever we go? Why ducks?</p>
<p>There are big brains at Google and Yahoo.</p>
<p>Perhaps they are boy brains? I am trying to decide if I felt more like a mother piggie or a mother doggie when the kids were little…I definitely never felt like a duck.</p>
<p>If if my moms (Moms, Step-moms, grandmoms, Mr. Moms, Surrogate moms, just like moms, petmoms and loco parentis) can’t make it to first page status… (ok, my girls have come to the rescue)</p>
<p>there are ducks because we have ducklings how as far as them following us all in a nice row :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all</p>
<p>Alu,</p>
<p>Sorry I missed you in NYC. All of that torrential rain on friday was me crying cause I did not know you were here.</p>
<p>Congrats on all of the graduations, birthdays, homecomings (with good health and speedy recoveries)</p>
<p>Today my big son really did something very grown up.
He called to tell me about my present.
Today is Mothers Day and also my birthday.</p>
<p>He said he couldn’t ship the package to me.
The present was “a new daughter for me.”</p>
<p>At first I couldn’t figure it out.
Then he said he is “engaged.”</p>
<p>Engaged in what, I don’t know.</p>
<p>I do know he has a wonderful girlfriend.
She’s been there for several years.
Tomorrow, I will ask her to help me figure this out.
I know she will help.</p>
<p>True that. In SA, we promise to take each others’ news in, for better or worse. Otherwise, what would be the point? It would be…a moot point. (Oh that one was hard to develop)</p>
<p>Yes, a beautiful ring that they selected together, so that makes me extra glad because that means she’ll enjoy wearing it. And she’s already wearing it. I know that from the picture he sent us of her hand. Good thing I know and love her already, because otherwise I’d be talking to the hand. I’m still so surprised, but delighted right down to my core being. She’s wonderful and he’s lucky.</p>
And I am crowning him Wonderful, too. (Although I’m sure you’ve already done that). What a winning way to announce it to you. So… He is wonderful and you are lucky.</p>
how as far as them following us all in a nice row :rolleyes:</p>
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