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Brad’s Odds N Ends | ||
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October, 2007 - Vol. 1, No. 4 |
Christians, Parents of Teenagers, and Teachers | ||
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Welcome! Small Summer is Here! What to do with the Kids? Small Communities The antique capitol of A tongue-in-cheek view of small town life, population 104 Tell us about your small town. Accepted descriptions and pictures will be presented as reader articles and editorials in the Brad’s Odds N Ends newsletter. Send your submissions to the address below.
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Copyright 2007 by Brad Loveland |
College Bound!
Our son was thinking: when will they leave me alone? Aren’t I an adult now? Can’t I make these decisions on my own? Aren’t I supposed to learn to make my own way? He was 18 most of his senior year of high school. Then, stack moving the family and his mother and I changing jobs on top of that and our life was more than just a little stressful. The spring of our oldest son’s senior year, the economics of the area had forced me to take a job in I really felt I was missing out on the children growing up, sporting events, plays, and band concerts. Then, there was the parade of boyfriends and girlfriends, growing physically and mentally, and most importantly, spiritually. Our oldest son was graduating from high school. I was determined to be at all of the graduation events. One-by-one I made the events. One was the dinner our congregation put together to honor the seniors from the congregation. Included was putting together and reading a letter to our son. My wife, bless her, worked on the letter while I was gone during the week and we used email back and forth to fine tune it. The closer that it came to the dinner, the more I wondered if I would be able to get all of the way through the letter without breaking down, very undignified for a man in most of Texas. Finally, the banquet came and everyone showed up in support. All of his grandparents and other family and friends drove to the banquet. The letter reading was touching and I got through it. We had a preserved copy made and he treasures it. Suddenly, I found out more of what I had been missing. He decided to go to school at a local technical two-year college with an agreement to send all hours to the four-year college he currently is attending. The FAFSA application online needed more information that I had no idea what had happened to since we split so much of the household items between the house and the apartment. Graduation sealed it. He was more than growing, he was grown and going to work to find his own way. I couldn’t stop it or speed through the rough times. We had to wait and try to anticipate what would be coming. The only thing I knew was that the road would teach me more every day and it could shake my faith.
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