They Always Come Back Home--Some sooner than later!

 I broke down--  After reading all yer comments, yesterday, on the blog--- and noticing one lowly Hummingbird flying around the kitchen window where there was no feeder--Well---  I refilled 2 feeders-- Lord love a Duck! Will they EVER go?------so, the stragglers are still here--with a ton of bees surrounding  each feeder-

Son#2's daughter-- our oldest Grand daughter, is entering her 3rd year University- I was texting her this morning. It reminded me of when Son#1 and Son#2 went to University and us packing everything they owned , loading it all into a trailer , and making a big trip  to a University they had chosen, usually very far from here---and crying all the way there, assuming, we would never ever see them again! -

--Well, that is not the way it was---because, THEY ALWAYS COME BACK HOME!---  some came back within a few mos., some finished their courses and returned home  because they had no idea what to do next--some quit their courses, came back--worked at anything they could find in town, then  continued on in a different  school-- But, whatever course they began,  never was what job they finally ended up with----and it took years and years of them bouncing back home--then back to school--At one point we had 3 grown kids at 3 different places of education--I remember I never went to a dress store in those years--Himself's salary all went to finance these 5 kids----

I used to see parents crying as they unpacked their vehicles with their kids stuff, in some higher learning institute-- I always wanted to tell them to stop the tears--  for they will return home--maybe even in a week-- 

All our kids did graduate from somewhere and they all became successful in something--Praise the Lord!----They were not easy years for Himself and I, but looking back, it was all worth it--I remember Himself begging son#1 , in a parking lot where he was painting lines on a extremely hot day,  in another city, to quit University---- He continued on however, and graduated with Honours  --FINALLY---  I also remember Himself  becoming very angry with son#2 , when he returned home after his 2nd year in science and telling his Dad he was not returning to the school he had been attending--"I want to be a Pilot", he told his Dad---and--he did change to an aviation school--and was one of 300 who graduated from there with Honours----

How on earth did I ever get onto all of this?---"Fall" --I guess ---- School buses passing me on the back road--and kids trying to figure out their lives----in these Pandemic times ----with the bank Canada raising interest rates AGAIN! 

We have sun to-day---Sushi is here beside me---Beau and Lopez have been out--Isn't it wonderful that we don't have to educate these pets--??- -- There are always things to be thankful for , aren't there?--

And, with all the Grandchildren, their parents now are going thru the tough years that we  survived--and in spite of all the bouncing back and forth, they were good times--eventually  the kids and us, figured it out-- The poor parents eh?--  Look at all these kids!