life

Man you sure just don't understand things fully about what your parents went through raising you until you are a parent yourself.  Like how I just announced after college graduation that I was moving to Austin, TX.  No regard for how my parents felt on the issue.  MY KIDS ARE NOT DOING THAT TO ME!!!  So sorry mom and dad!!!!!!  Today Av has a friend coming over to play.  We have played with them many times before but the mom was always with us.  I think this is the first time this friend will be at someone's house wo a parent present.  I have talked to both parents and both of them have said, "I know you, I know she will be fine."  Yes she will be, I will take great care of her and we are not one of those weird/bad families but really how do they for sure know that???  Sucks in this world you have to worry about everyone.  Even people that seem so normal (do we seem normal?  heheh)  I worry about my kids going to friends houses and in fact they have not been to a friends house wo us yet, who we do not personally know well, but people worrying about me like that?  I am not used to being on the receiving end of it.  But sadly in this world I guess parents have to worry no matter what.  A friend of ours first grader had a classmate "expose" himself to their kid several times in one day AT SCHOOL.  So much so that the friend's kid finally told the teacher and the exposer was expelled for the day.  The point of that story is that the exposer looks totally "normal" and seems to come from a good family.  My friend would never let her boy go to this boy's house now but would have before.  Scary.  So I have regressed a little but I am now feeling nervous.  What if this girls gets hurt at my house???  Which led me to remember a time probably one of my first friend over experiences when we still lived in CT.  My friend jumped off the top bunk of our bed and broke her arm.  My poor mom!!!  She must have felt soooo bad.  It's sooooooo hard being a parent!!!!!!!!