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October 2007
Sunday October 28, 2007
Permalink Posted by: Dad4Girls at 6:47PM EST on October 28, 2007
I have 4 daughters, and our oldest is getting old enough for some serious discussion about you know what....sex.  Honestly, I am terrified.

I have no idea what to say if she asks me if I ever "did it" before I got married.  The fact is, I want her to save herself for her husband, after she gets married, and I strongly feel abestenance is the only way.  The problem is, if this question comes up, the honest answer is the answer I don't want to give. Any advice??
Monday October 22, 2007
Permalink Posted by: Lily at 10:51AM EST on October 22, 2007

What a fantastic weekend my son and husband had together. They spent the weekend camping in the Georgia mountains with the Cub Scouts. They returned home yesterday, both smelling of a campfire and God knows what else!

They did the things boys should do with their dads (or moms for that matter)…fished, hiked, ate s’mores, sang songs and performed skits. And at the end of the day they fell into their tent and slept like a rock. Actually my husband almost didn’t sleep like a rock! He forgot his sleeping bag and had the nerve to call me and ask me if I’d packed it! No, I didn’t pack it or anything else for him for that matter!! (He had to drive 25 miles to a WalMart to buy one!)

Last night as I tucked in my newly washed Cub Scout I asked him who he had the most fun with over the weekend and “Daddy” was his reply. In this fast paced world, thank goodness for Cub Scouts!
Wednesday October 3, 2007
Permalink Posted by: Ginger at 2:27PM EST on October 3, 2007

Ya'll might have read my funny/sad story about my son's anxiety before taking off for summer camp last summer. http://www.connectwithkids.com/blogs/stacey/ -- scroll down to the fourth entry. When my son came home, his dad posted this on his myspace blog. I asked if I could post it here, too, thought you might like to see the full circle:

My Boy Came Home Today

What an amazing thing. He was gone for 4 weeks. His mother and I went to pick him up at the airport. He ran to us and stuck like velcro. He told us of his whole summer over dinner, the girls, the guys, the trips and projects. I do many things to enrich my life. I endevour to expand, experience and learn, but nothing I can ever do compares with my experience of my son. He lives and breathes a pureness that I hope he carries all his life. If I never did anything quite right before I can forever be thankful, grateful and wholey satisfied in experiencing his unabashed love. Truth be told there has been so much of life that I chose to run away from. This is the thing I choose to run to. He teaches me all I need to know to be a better man. It's a complete connection, a billowing, encompassing respite that soothes the mundane trivialities. Without my son I am not a father, and without being a father I am not a man, and deep down inside I want to be a man. Thank you son.


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