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Chapter 34 – New Haven to Redondo Beach
Bette: Well, fortunately, you have no immediate need for cash so, there is no rush to get your investment out of it.
Mary: That’s true. But I do want to hang around until my friends make their moves. Now that I have a plan, or at least part of a plan, I don’t mind being the last of our group to leave.
Tina: But you are still coming for the holidays, right?
Mary: Yes. I have a daughter getting married. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Tina: We do so appreciate you coming and helping us out with this move and with Angie’s party. It may not have been the most fun you have ever had, but we certainly enjoyed you being with us.
Mary: I loved every minute of it. It’s great fun to work on projects with your grandchildren and being able to see things through to the finish. And taking Angie to Yale, that was really a treat. She is a fine young woman. You two have done a terrific job raising her. In a way, she reminds me of Paris at that age. Her beauty, poise and so smart. But there are ways about her that are truly unique as well. I do not know what the future holds for that child, but we very well could be looking at a Supreme Court Justice.
Bette (laughed): Well, I hope she stays out of politics at least elected office. I think Angie is too honest and straight forward to do that. But she very well could be a good judge.
Tina: I really believe we need to allow Angie to tell us what she plans on doing. Mention something like that and she will believe that we expect that from her.
Mary: We only expect that she is the one who is going to shape her life, make her choices and follow her heart.
Daniel: How long is your flight Grandma Mary?
Mary: It’s almost five hours too. I plan to take a nice long nap when I get settled down.
Daniel: That sounds like a good idea. If they have a decent movie, I might watch it.
Tina: They may feed us a little something. Maybe that will hold you until we get to LA. We will get some take out for tonight. I do not believe I’ll be in a mood to actually cook.
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I hope I’m reading this story years into the future. Bette and Tina as grandparents, three generations living together, where Daniel will go to college, the scenarios are endless. Thanks for your dedication, Martha.
Fans,
Thank you for commenting. There are only a few more chapters in this Volume. I have completed a Volume 3 of this series … and will continue to publish on a regular basis. This volume starts to address the raising of a boy and the onset of puberty and adolescence. These are the challenging years in a persons life and even more so for the parents going through it with them. Now that Angie is away at Yale, she doesn’t have much of a role in my stories until she returns home.
I know that this is not the normal fan fiction. But what I want to show is how important communication is between Bette and Tina. I want to show how important it is for parents to communicate with their children and how important it is to realize that the objective is raise children to be independent, healthy, happy individuals. And so much goes into that. To have a child go from childhood to adulthood is difficult for parents… probably more difficult than the child themselves will ever realize. To come to the realization that you (as a parent) will not be there to give just the right advice and to object to the wrong decision is a tough bridge to cross. That has been a subplot of most of this story… I hope that has come across in my writing. Bette and Tina are strong parents but its not because they hold tight reigns on their children. Angie and Daniel are unique individuals… at least they are in my story.
Thanks for reading and commenting… stay tuned for more…
I alway shook my head while watching the parents of my kids’ friends hold a tight reign and made choices for them which nearly always backfired. Made for quite the lesson in our household.