We do have a 3rd car.  It is a 2000 Chevy Venture van- the "mom-mobile" as my newly-permitted teen calls it.  We also have a 2007 truck and a 2010 Focus.  Guess which car the kids drive?  The "mom-mobile".  It's paid for.      My 18 year old had a snit fit when she found out that she was NOT taking a car to college ...more

Dtr graduated in June.  Everyone warned me just how expensive Senior year can be.  She did get a class ring- wore it for a year and a half.  She went off to college and it now sits in her jewlery box.  The 2012 tassel is hanging in the car that did NOT go to campus.  I paid $300 for senior pictures, did them through th...more

PBS can survive if the government cuts funding to it.  Love Sesame Street, kids loved Big Bird growing up.  But I don't want to pay for PBS if I'm not even watching it.

All I can think of is how rude my niece was.    My mom and I gave her a VERY generous wedding/baby gift (the baby came before the wedding),  Neither of us EVER got any kind of a note from her.  Yeah I know she was busy and working, but IMHO that was just rude- considering how far we drove to go out there to see he...more