Letting Go

Ok – so I know last time I was on here I said I’d tell you about the last bit of our trip.

It took a lot of hours. It was very boring. We were very tired.

I think that sums it up!

Now – on to more interesting things!

Firstly – I’ve put in three job applications so please wish me luck. I’d really like a job! I’m sure I could do all three jobs but I’m equally sure I suck at job interviews so we’ll see how it pans out. Not exactly the greatest economic climate for trying to enter the workforce! If none of these applications come to anything I might change direction a little – will just have to wait and see.

Ooh – a rather young and very buff Arnold Schwarzenegger is on tv. I’m momentarily distracted…

15 year old sons. Tricky they are. Has anyone else got one? I’ve been very big on keeping my boys away from violent and graphic computer games. Once Dory turned 15 he pointed out that the age thing on the game says 15+ and all the other kids play them. So I’m having to let go a little and he’s got a few games. He’s downstairs now playing something. “Fear” I think it’s called. I hate them. Why do they exist? Couldn’t the game makers create the same game play without the blood and guts? What’s wrong with our society that these things even exist? Apparently there are no decent teenage boy games without the violence… It’s the graphicness of it all that really bothers me.

But I guess parenting is just one big letting go process and somewhere along the way I’m supposed to let them make their own way. I’d rather not…

Thankfully Dory (my eldest) is a pretty mature kid. And on the whole, reliable and trustworthy. So he does set a pretty good example for his younger brothers. I just hate these games… But then I hate the thought of my kids being the only kids that don’t do something. Teenagers need to fit in. Don’t they? I never fitted in and it wasn’t a good feeling…