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The tide might be turning...

This weekend was a perfect storm. You know how you can sit home weekend after weekend and wonder why every body else has a life and what have you done wrong that you don't? Well this weekend was not that weekend.  It started the week before with my sons girlfriend returning from college. Long anticipated and signaled the start of the summer period. Then his best friend returned for a 10 day visit on leave from the military before deployment. This kid is not just any kid he is my other son. His mother has helped raise my kids and I hope that I have been there for hers. Geographically theses kids have grown up with their bedroom windows 20 feet apart and spent everyday together for 13 years. So 2 of the most important people in his life were now home, and how do you juggle that. Boys not being innately socially aware anyway I think I was more on edge ready to jump in if things weren't going smoothly. Like a mothering life jacket. Luckily the alarm was never raised and h...
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