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"Leila" > wrote:

> Navy or YMCA - I typed several answers to that but canceled them
> all. I'm leaving that one alone!
>
> fine restaurant - we'll go to Chez Panisse cafe upstairs first.
> It's much more casual. And we'll go at lunchtime. But not this year...
>
> how they got the interest in table setting - must have been from
> all those dinners at my mom's house -she takes them one day a week
> after school, feeds them and brings them home after dinner. Frequently
> my parents will have other guests as well and then they're all in the
> formal dining room, so the kids get plenty of practice at proper meal
> protocols. They've clearly been paying attention to the details at her
> house. I've just been slapping plates on the kitchen table with little
> ceremony.
>
> This is why it really takes a village to raise a child - my life has
> been too hectic and stressed out for such things, but the grandparents
> stepped in. It didn't occur to me to say - hey, since I'm going to be
> in treatment for cancer for a year and then go to grad school, my table
> service will be haphazard to non-existent, so would you please make
> sure the children learn some decorum?
>
> But it worked out that way anyway. Thank God.
>
> Leila

I'm finding it incumbent on the grands to impart some of the niceties
that have, for whatever reason, gotten lost or lowered in importance in
the grand scheme of parenting. It's fun when the twerps are interested.
Chemo & radiation both? And then grad school. You nuts? "Go big or
stay home." Guess you're not inclined to stay home, huh, Leila. God
bless you, Woman! I salute you.

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-Barb
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