Comments on: The Practical Season

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:30:13 +0000

Good luck to your mom. I hope she enjoys herself. I am going back to school in the next couple years and am trying to decide what I want to do. I’m leaning toward impractical myself.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:09:52 +0000

Yep, instead of freezing, which a) I only have a small freezer, and b) what if the electricity goes out? It took a long time, but I think now that we’ve done the first time, it’ll get a lot smoother. Now I’ve got enough chicken cooked and parceled out for a year. For cheap!

By: Lissa

Lissa — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:39:21 +0000

Okay…..I just gotta inquire: canned chicken? seriously? why? This would be in contrast to freezing it?
And #2….does your mama approve of you talking on the phone while driving? tsk tsk :} Not safe.
But most cool about mama goes to school. My mother, age 76, stopped her senior year of college and I think always has that vague feeling of wishing she could have finished and gotten that old degree. So kudos to your mom–it is a brave thing1

By: Sharla

Sharla — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:50:34 +0000

Oh man! You’ve got to tell me next time there is a sale on chicken that good! I can’t imagine being close to the next season of my life. And I wish I felt the domestic pull….canning chicken does not sound fun to me. But go you!!
And I hope your girls get better soon, it’s just not the same without them….

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:26:31 +0000

Funny you should advise against the practical–all these years, I’ve wished I had chosen the practical instead of History, for goodness sakes! Although I freely admit that I felt like I had come home when I took “Historiography” after cancelling my Home Ec. major, History does not put food on the table when Hubby is out of work. But to be honest, if I had finished my teaching certificate, I would have felt compelled to go to work myself.

Even so, there should be room in her program for your mom to get a good dose of learning-for-the-joy-of-learning, no matter what she ultimately chooses. By the way, one friend of mine went back to school in her 50′s, became a travel agent(!?!), but then caught the learning bug and got a master’s degree in English as a Second Language, and in May received her PhD in Arabic, no less! And she’s 62! You’re right to say “Oh, the places you’ll go!”

By: Grampa

Grampa — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:50:33 +0000

You might suggest to Mama that she look into the Phys Ed Department. Isn’t that where they teach you how to be a cheerleader? All those barely post-adolescent girls need some good leadership, and Lord knows she has the experience keeping beautiful, headstrong young daughters in line.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:31:47 +0000

How awesome that your mom is going back to school. My grandma did that; she studied German. I would love to see my mom go to school. She never went to college and I think she would love it.