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Jan 21, 2023Liked by Mike Huggins

We got our children late in life. My husband wanted to think about children and he thought for ten years before he finally announced that he wanted some children. He is a slow thinker. He thought about marrying me for 22 years. I used to joke with my friends that he was on the look for something better, but I knew that was not true, he is just a slow starter. When we finally got married our children were 10 and 12. My neighbor is a priest and she wed us. Her husband and another neighbor was our witnesses. The kids had a friend over. The dog was asleep in the shadow. Our oldest neighbor watched us from his kitchen window. He asked the next day: did I see you get married yesterday or what was that all about? Yes, we did, it was perfect.

So I always thought that if I get to be a grandmother I will be an old grandmother and that's too bad because I want to chase them around the house going beep, beep, and I want to take them swimming. But now, I sometimes think I won't be around at all, because I took one shot.

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Yesterday I was working in my garden picking carrots and I thought, Emma's comments are very moving. Thanks for sharing Emma.

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Thank you, and I am sorry. I have trouble listening silently, without telling my own story as well.

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Jan 24, 2023Liked by Mike Huggins

"But now, I sometimes think I won't be around at all, because I took one shot."

There were A LOT of 'squibs' early on in the Plandemic. If it didn't make your arm sore, I wouldn't worry about it too much. The worry could be worse than the shot.

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You are right. Thank you.

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hmmm. now that is what I call "maximum procrastination" wow.. I will never have Grand children. and I have very mixed feelings about it: it is for the best. a SLOW THINKER.. wow;; you must be a patient and kind person.

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Well I don’t think I am. But I really hoped he would want children because I wanted a child and I wanted him to be the father. I did tell him that I had I time limit and that I might feel forced to leave him eventually, and try having a child on my own at a clinic abroad. But it never needed to come to that. And the marriage thing, in my country it is OK to have kids first, and marry in a later stage of life. Maybe that can differ in our countries. But he don't really believe in marriages. In all that mattered we were tied together, married or not, and he did not want to jinx it. But I told him we could die of this new covid thing and our children would be better off economically if their parents had been married. So he caved in. Maximum procrastination, yes, that is a good description.

I have always said to our children that they do not need to have children to be happy. I am trying to tell them I don't demand grandchildren. Because I don't want them to be unhappy and feel unhappy if the cannot get any children. Our life will be just fine without grandchildren.

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Jan 21, 2023Liked by Mike Huggins

Teach your children well, and DO NOT VACCINATE THEM FOR COVID, at least. Words to live by.

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Jan 21, 2023Liked by Mike Huggins

Used to listen to CSNY and various other artists of the time, like the Doors and Hendrix, on our weekend trips from Cupertino to Santa Cruz CA during the early 70s. I must have been around 7 yo. "Our House" was particularly remembered.

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I spent a lot of time in Santa Cruz in the late 60’s and 70’s. Lompico pool.

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So obviously there is something on the internet.. maybe it is the Teacher's union or cray cray teachers attempting to "CO-PARENT".. as the cray cray American woman said about the Chinese govt.. it is good thing.. (whew!) but another friend posted Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song,, this very song,, to which I gave my real opinion as I always do: Teach your children well: yeah. well CSNY whom I did also see in concert,, taken by a friend who made it home from Viet Nam, as a gift to me.. since I was the only person who wrote him while there.. I had several guys who were dear friends of mine.. I still have a couple of their letters. yep,, which is HOW I SUPPORTED THE GUYS IN VIET NAM. yes.. not BULLSH@T. So I was surprised when I saw this post. She claimed that she went to the concert..though is considerably younger than me. also an Army kid. so I have my doubts.. but anyway: LIKE I TOLD HER, back in the day,, during Viet Nam when all those anti WAR DEMOCRATS..manipulated the "CHILDREN" to take to the streets.. while they were making millions (LBJ and the other neo liberal Democrats, like today.. I did NOT participate.. with their nonsense (though I lived in DC during all the MLK and VIET NAM protests and yes many of my friend did, BUT protesting in the street and listening to all those FOLK anti war folk songs did NOT SUPPORT or help the MEN WHO were in Viet Nam. MY FATHER and MOTHER did train me well.. and taught me the difference between B.S and the REAL DEAL. and CSNY are not the real deal. My father who came back with a METAL PLATE IN HIS HEAD FROM KOREA.. which was after serving in four combat tours.. yes the Army screwed him over.. was the real deal, my mother and father never lied to us. and shared their bread and life with us. THAT IS AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE... Mike,, anyway gotta go had a tough week... for real though was amusesd the WEF Idiots.. take care.

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Sweet.

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