Sisters, please keep Louisiana in your prayers, and if you can, please consider making a donation to the Red Cross or other organizations seeking resources and/or donations.  The images I've seen out of Louisiana are heartbreaking and moved me to make a donation through my local news station.  Taylor Swift (God bless her) has made a one million dollar donation. 







 

annieahoy wrote:

gabriele wrote:

annieahoy wrote:

I'm telling you, Kym is still in stage one of love, so she's not gonna dislike anything about him now. A woman who is turning 40 and wants children, but not out of wedlock, is going to find it easy to get along with a good-looking, wealthy man who adores her. I sound cynical, and I am, although I wish nothing but the best for them. There may be all kinds of problems looming (to begin with, none of his children were at the wedding); I just hope they know how to handle the challenges they may face.
 

It's not cynical, CEK.  Just realistic.  Hope her wish for motherhood comes true.   
 

That was I -- Annie -- being cynical/realistic. Guess I've seen and read too much; at my age, you learn how to spot potential problems. Even Maks and Peta will have challenges, no matter how excited they are over this baby. Children are wonderful blessings but they change your relationship, not always for the better all the time.  
 

 I agree, Annie....I am amused at the thought of Maks and P with a baby.  I envision them being doting parents without any real experience with kids...and what a knock on the head that can be!!!  Holding someone else's baby is a joy when you don't have to be up all nite or try to figure out what the cause of the screaming is!!  I wonder if they are even reading any books on the subject.  I realize children come with no instructions...it's all OJT and we all begin without practice--and then when you think you've figured something out, the kid changes and it's a new adjustment.  But raising them is the hardest, most fun filled, and most important job any parent will ever do.  Somehow we survive--and so do the children, although enjoying the journey can sometimes be a struggle!!   But what's life about anyway?!  

CEK40 wrote:

I thought following pic was interesting...maybe that is what has been happening to me all these years....LOL




Well today looks like a lovely day here in VA...not to hot but a little on the humid side due to the rain showers we had yesterday...but at least it won't be 100 today....

 
Always good when it isn't 100 outside!!  LOL  A friend and I took a ride to Woodland Hills (out to the west thru LA and beyond Hollywood) early this morning to a quilt shop we like there (it's 47 miles each way).  They were having a sale--and it is a small shop that has quite alot of Civil War and 1930's reproduction fabrics (both my favorites).  I needed some yardage for borders on a Civil War project I'm working on.  We sat outside in the shade at Starbuck's (5 or 6 stores away) after we shopped--and it was lovely at 11 or 11:30 a.m. or so.  When we got back near the neighborhood we stopped for lunch before coming home.

Temps in the mid-80's here the rest of the week, I think.  Today is to be one of the warmer days but so far very nice.

View, unobstructed wrote:

They keep a very low profile on social media...probably even more since the separation and divorce.  He has one son, Brendan, approx 24 years old.  Two daughters... Caprice would be 18 based on an article I saw her mentioned in, and Skye - I think she is the oldest.

But I am an optimist.  With time and maturity - and relationships of their own  - I believe the kids will see that their father was very unhappy and that Kym brought joy back in to his life. The divorce may not have been final, but the separation was clean...there was no going back to Diane imo - her call.  Kym did not cause it or prevent a reconciliation.

I expect it to last their lifetime.  But even if it does not...life is for living, loving.

Here's a cute thing that sums it up with an element of dance!

 
I agree with you, View....I think the kids will figure it out.  Most of the kids of divorce eventuallly see the light and figure out what the real deal was.  If the parent(s) are worthy of having a relationship with the children, it will often happen.  I know my nieces never lost hope that their father would change his lying ways...he never did....but they held out hope and they kept hoping he would change.  He died several years ago.  They don't have any animosity about his lies to them...they actually knew in their hearts that is who he was, but since he was their father, they accepted those things about him.

Like you, I'm an optimist, and I too expect their marriage to last a lifetime.  I believe that, barring some real transgressions that are unforgivable, if your intent and belief are that it is a lifetime commitment, (most of the time) it can be so.  Not gonna be happiness and bliss all the time, but working thru the difficult times is just a part of life...no matter what the difficulty is.

Well...gotta get some work done, then go out for a walk.

Have a good evening, everyone!