The winter months have passed and the skies here in North Carolina are turning Carolina blue. This is the time of year when college students are making their plans for summer. Some will stay at school and take classes, others will find jobs and some will take classes and work. Summer vacation can be a fun and productive time.
As parents of college students it can give us some much needed time to reconnect with our children. When mine come home I enjoy spending one on one time with them. Many students start drinking coffee in college. A fun outing this summer would be to take your son or daughter out for a Coffee Break. Even if you or your child don't drink coffee, many coffee shops offer drinks such as teas and smoothies.
Please send in your ideas for spending one on one time with a college student. I would love to hear from parents of college students, college students or anyone else with great ideas. On April 15th I plan to put all the names of the people who have posted comments with suggestions into a drawing. The winner will receive a $1o Starbucks gift card. You can enter more than once, so keep those ideas coming!
P.S. You must be registered as "Follower" to enter the drawing.
Out to dinner with the family
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Morning Glories
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Many years, ago my husband and I lived in Columbia, South Carolina. Our next door neighbors were a retired couple named Vera and Inky (a nickname for his formal name of English). We lived in a small duplex and Vera and Inky lived in a cozy cottage style house. There was a chain link fence separating the two yards.
Inky loved to work in his garden. In the spring and summer, he would start working in his garden early in the morning. About noon he would go inside for lunch and to get a reprieve from the heat. Late in the afternoon he would come back out to continue planting , fertilizing and watering his garden.
My favorite flowers he planted were Morning Glories. They grew on the fence and early on summer mornings I would look out my window and see the beautiful purple flowers opened wide, looking toward the sky. In the heat of the afternoon, they would close up and rest. The next morning, just like Inky, they would be back again.
This pattern of work and rest, planting and harvesting, reminds me of parenting. There are times we are up early, planting seeds for a future harvest and there are times of rest. We hope when our children go to college this will be a time we see the flower bloom.
Early one morning a few years ago, I noticed morning glories growing on our wooden fence in our yard here in North Carolina. We had not planted them. My husband said that birds or the wind may have brought them. I like to think they blew here from Inky's yard. I look forward every summer to seeing their pretty purple petals.
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Many years, ago my husband and I lived in Columbia, South Carolina. Our next door neighbors were a retired couple named Vera and Inky (a nickname for his formal name of English). We lived in a small duplex and Vera and Inky lived in a cozy cottage style house. There was a chain link fence separating the two yards.
Inky loved to work in his garden. In the spring and summer, he would start working in his garden early in the morning. About noon he would go inside for lunch and to get a reprieve from the heat. Late in the afternoon he would come back out to continue planting , fertilizing and watering his garden.
My favorite flowers he planted were Morning Glories. They grew on the fence and early on summer mornings I would look out my window and see the beautiful purple flowers opened wide, looking toward the sky. In the heat of the afternoon, they would close up and rest. The next morning, just like Inky, they would be back again.
This pattern of work and rest, planting and harvesting, reminds me of parenting. There are times we are up early, planting seeds for a future harvest and there are times of rest. We hope when our children go to college this will be a time we see the flower bloom.
Early one morning a few years ago, I noticed morning glories growing on our wooden fence in our yard here in North Carolina. We had not planted them. My husband said that birds or the wind may have brought them. I like to think they blew here from Inky's yard. I look forward every summer to seeing their pretty purple petals.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Taking Care of Business
It has been a little over five months since I posted anything on this blog. In the months since my daughter left for grad school and my oldest son left for his first year of college I have been busier than I thought I would be. I have two teenage sons at home and although I do not have as many responsibilites as I had when I had four children at home, there is still plenty to do.
My hope for this blog is that it will be a place where parents of college students can make comments and suggestions about adjusting to this new phase of parenthood.
I am sure many of you are busy taking care of business at home and at work, just as I have been the past few months but my plans are to blog more often and I hope my words encourage you.
Proverbs 22:31
The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
My hope for this blog is that it will be a place where parents of college students can make comments and suggestions about adjusting to this new phase of parenthood.
I am sure many of you are busy taking care of business at home and at work, just as I have been the past few months but my plans are to blog more often and I hope my words encourage you.
Proverbs 22:31
The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
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