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This is all so very familiar! I remember all the whining so well!! He hated doing anything around the house! But my son was pretty fiscally responsible. Living in the country, there were plenty of after school jobs around here from the time we moved here when he was 11 or 12. Spring and fall he picked rocks from the farmers’ fields, moving up to driving the tractor pulling the trailer the kids threw the rocks in. He spent summers up north at the beach with my parents - no better place in the world to spend the summer! - and got summer jobs up there too. In fact, he had jobs year round by the time he was 13. He wanted a dirt bike, then a car and with Mum on disability and his Dad a deadbeat, he had to pay for those things himself. When he graduated from high school and got a full time job, I requested he chip in to help with the groceries. I thought that was a reasonable request since he was doing physical work and ate like both his legs were hollow. You’d have thought I was asking him to turn his pay check over to me! Nobody else who lived at home had to pay rent... As if a couple of hundred dollars a month even covered what he ate, let alone covered any of the mortgage or bills! He opted to move into a town house with his buddies instead. Less than a year later he thanked me for all the sacrifices I’d made as a single Mum, now that he’d had a taste of how expensive life was! We were super close - we went to concerts together and just really had a lot of fun. Boy do I miss those days!!

So enjoy your time with your son, Lola, and don’t worry about us! We’ll be here when you get back. I need to get out in the gardens and do some weeding and planting, so I’ll be MIA sometime soon. We’re on 1 1/2 acres so there are tons of flower beds around the house, barns and yard. It’s no small task! Most my flowers are perennials, but a few died off. Mostly my fault as some should have been dug up for the winter, but my body just wouldn’t cooperate. Today, however, I’m using my Magesterium and crafting birdies and fans to trade. I’ve been saving my flasks for just this occasion (has anyone else felt they’re dropping less lately?).

Mistress Kat