Catching up With You

Hello, Everyone,

Just writing to say I had a super busy summer, trying to fit in writing and taking care of two kids--one of which is 17 and thinks I'm his personal driver. But now, that the kdis are back in school, I have time to do what I love---sit around and do nothing. No, not really, I'm busier than ever writing, writing, and writing. And getting all the housework done I didn't have time to do all summer with writing, and arranging play dates, and being a personal chef, and taxi driver, and with my hair falling out, and having major stomach problems---getting old sucks! I'm not even fifty yet and for some odd reason, my body has decided to ramp it up and make me look and feel 60.

But, yes I will be writing some major topics to come. Just didn't have any time during the summer to get back to my blog.

I can't believe the major problems the banks are having, and that gas is finally coming down in price. With the government bailing them out---that makes things really scary! We just averted diving into a depression. That would mean that many Americans like my Mom would have lived through two depressions.

It's really scary---we are having a hard time making ends meet with my husband having lost his job last spring. He got another job, but it doesn't pay as well. So we are doing without already. I'm at the point where I'm seriously thinking about stocking up on food and supplies just in case. And winter will be coming soon and we may be going into a depression---that means long food lines, long gas lines, no jobs and major scariness. People are already losing their homes and their jobs. Just the other day I saw statistics that over 60percent of American families ---parents are moving in with their kids. Many of these people are immigrants---but still, times are so bad that entire families are living together again.

And that is both good and bad. Grandparents are there for their grandchildren and families can help each other out and not be spread out all over the country. But still, there's no real privacy, either. But, then again Mom and Dad can get jobs and have Grandma and Grandpa watch the kids, and make dinner, and do the laundry while they aren't home. Okay, maybe that wouldn't be so awful.

I will be back writing more articles for your peruse soon, I promise. It's just something I have to do. Some people have to sing, I just have to write.