Comments on: the flood is too deep http://www.thispile.com/archives/the-flood-is-too-deep One Woman, Many Piles, Much Grace. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeanie http://www.thispile.com/archives/the-flood-is-too-deep/comment-page-1#comment-146946 Jeanie Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:22:33 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/?p=3979#comment-146946 Jen, you will get through this. Every June when the kids were in school, it happens. Then summer vacation starts, you adjust to having the kids home all day, and after a week or two it gets normal. So normal you love it - the lack of routine. Then near August the school age kids need more structure, actually more than I usually did, and I begrudgingly start buying school supplies, clothes, etc. I used to get a bit depressed at this time just thinking of the kids being home all day, bored, fighting siblings, etc. And you know I am not a depressed-type person, almost totally sanguine, but as women we get that way. Then when they suddenly grow up and move out, you miss those times they were home and don't know what to do with yourself...and get a cat like I did, only to realize it was not what I needed and find the cat a better home with somebody who loved the critter. Hope that helps just a little, Jen, you will get through this. Every June when the kids were in school, it happens. Then summer vacation starts, you adjust to having the kids home all day, and after a week or two it gets normal. So normal you love it – the lack of routine. Then near August the school age kids need more structure, actually more than I usually did, and I begrudgingly start buying school supplies, clothes, etc. I used to get a bit depressed at this time just thinking of the kids being home all day, bored, fighting siblings, etc. And you know I am not a depressed-type person, almost totally sanguine, but as women we get that way.
Then when they suddenly grow up and move out, you miss those times they were home and don’t know what to do with yourself…and get a cat like I did, only to realize it was not what I needed and find the cat a better home with somebody who loved the critter. Hope that helps just a little,

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