Okay - so "How you want to be remembered?"
"What does CHARACTER mean?"
And now "gone fishing" have in common.
A sole response - from that HAPPY man who is also my son - and complete silence from everyone else!
My happy son thinks I'm a bit looney tunes - or at the very least desperate for attention...
So perhaps I am.
Daughters-in-law - "hello, where are you?!?!
Grandchildren - I awaiting something that tells me you haven't gone to bed for the entire summer - okay???!!!
If this doesn't work I guess I'll just have to "go fishing" like all the rest...
XOXOXO
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Yeah, I definitely thought Summer would bring more blogging and in fact it seems to have brought less.
I'll push on my kids a bit. I asked Gwen last night when she was going to blog again and she said, "oh, maybe in like 10 years". I sensed that it wasn't on the top of her summertime agenda... Tory suggested that she might blog about a movie that she's recently seen that she loves, Sweeny Todd. It's kind of gruesome I understand (I've not seen it though we currently have the DVD from blockbuster). It's a musical too. I hope she does blog about it, then perhaps I can decide whether I will invest the time to give it a gander.
I'm kind of obsessed with "completion". It is extremely rare that I walk out on a movie in the middle, no matter how bad it is. Raunchiness would merit this but just plain "lousy" doesn't. I'll kick myself afterwards for wasting the time but I always have some degree of hope that the end will justify the means (that there will be some redeeming quality of a terrible movie). I can't ever remember being right about that. Usually if it stinks, it stinks all the way through to the end...
Daughter-in-law at your service....
I feel guilty if I take the time to blog, always seems like there is something more pressing. I will try and do better. I've got to catch up on reading the blogs too.
We are starting to enjoy the summer though, it was still really busy in the beginning. I think we have some down time for awhile before it all gets totally crazy again. Hope you are all doing well. Love, Cathleen
Yes, we are doing fine!! I love getting even a few lines in the comments, Cathleen!! I've missed you so much along with your blogs.
I hate that I'm not seeing the kids this summer. Draper is coming out the week after next and then his folks are coming to Carlsbad a few days later. He really wanted to come for a visit and I'm so, so happy he can.
Binghams are sharing a campsite with Christina for the week. I guess Kate and Dray will have some time together which hopefully will be nice.
I'll write to you one of these days - there's so much to keep up to date about, but it's after midnight and Sydney's bus comes just after 7AM! She takes the bus to work every day - lucky ME!!!!
xoxoxo
Well I stay up to like 11:45 or longer!
I love Summer!!
@Dad's comment "Yeah, I definitely thought Summer would bring more blogging and in fact it seems to have brought less."--Well, there's less to write about now that school's out, isn't there? u.u
But anyway, I did a journal entry on this a while ago, because I wasn't really sure how I wanted to be remembered...
For a long time I kind of dreaded the idea of being a stay-at-home mom and not having a career. I thought it was really important to be out in the world, or even to be famous. But my mom, of course, made some very good arguments about the importance of mothers and stuff like that, and then I wasn't really sure where I stood on the whole matter. On the one hand, I wanted fame and recognition, yet on the other, I realized that probably none of that could be as satisfying as having close friends and family.
So in that journal entry, I thought about why I wanted fame. I thought about the famous people I knew of--namely famous writers like J.K. Rowling, or like historical figures. And I thought about how much they've really influenced me, and what they've contributed to my life, and where I would be without them. I mean, J.K. Rowling, we all know, has profoundly impacted me. WHERE would I be if Harry Potter didn't exist? I could be a completely different person with completely different friends.
So I decided that I just really want to influence other people (for good). I just want to be the person whose role no other could fill. Like you know when you get the feeling like something was meant to happen? Like when you really see God's hand in the events of your life? (ex. you consider the fact that maybe things happen to you so you can empathize with others when they go through the same thing) Well I just really like that feeling (and I'm sure most people would agree)--the feeling of being important, or needed by others.
And I just think that would be especially cool on a large scale (such as that which fame would bring). I want to leave my mark on the world. I suppose I wouldn't even really mind living life in anonymity if I had the assurance that my works would impact generations to come. And I think that's why I'd prefer fame in this life--because I have no such assurance.
In one of my favorite movies, Dead Poets Society, the teacher there said something I really liked: "...The powerful play goes on and *you* may contribute a verse... What will your verse be?"
Anyway... that may not be the type of response you were looking for (now that I think of it, you probably were wondering what individual characteristics we wanted people to remember us for) but that was the first thing that came to mind, so I went with it ^^
Do more posts please and please look at my blog!! I wrote about two books!!!
Daughter-in-law #2 here (in terms of comment chronology, not in terms of joining the family... though this probably doesn't need to be explained). Answering the question about CHARACTER is too taxing on my overloaded brain right now, thus I have not written about it. And I'm barely able to get my own posts in, let alone look at others. But once things have settled down a bit more, I'll try to get back on my regular routine.
Not I've got to go pack for Girls Camp... I'll be MIA for the next week.
Have a good one!
Wow, I'm so stoked about your responses I can't wait to get back on!! I especially appreciate Tory's thoughts - I understand them completely - and Gwen I'll be checking yours out tonight!
As for Theresa... you are a class A-1 daughter-in-law, just like Cathleen, (smile) lest there be any misunderstanding about that...
This is just one more chapter in the book of life... and Tory is right on target, if anyone asks me.
xoxoxo G.
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