okay
yeah how many children do you have
i have four
and i have three what do you have boys girls
i have uh three boys and one girl the girl's adopted
i have
uh-huh i have two girls and one boy
yeah
do you have grandchildren yet
uh yeah i got two grandchildren
oh i got ahead of you there i got three and one on the way
no but uh i know when my children were growing up we did spend a lot of time together
yeah uh
uh school activities and my my boy was in hockey
yeah
and of course the girls uh and and uh myself we rooted you know we didn't participate but we did a lot of family things together
yeah
we had animals for the children you know our horses and that kind of thing and uh school activities type stuff
yeah
yeah my kids were involved in sports
uh-huh
football and baseball and
uh-huh
whatever
did you find the time to attend
but uh
oh yeah
oh yeah we did too
when they were growing up we did we were out in the middle of a desert out in Ridgecrest California
i think that's kind of the key don't you
huh
i think that's kind of the key
yeah
is to not be in the big city
yeah there wasn't a lot of other things for them to do
right
and uh so when when they participated in sports or whatever well uh all nearly all the parents went
and
yep we did that too and the children where um when in fact when my youngest was about two we decided to get out of the city and go to the country
yeah
i mean it's not as vast a country as like you know where you people are from because i lived in Abilene for a little while
yeah
and uh i know what nothing is when i moved out there
yeah
you know it the city itself is great but i mean you go in the in the uh car for a drive and you could see nothing for miles and miles and miles
we came back when they were teenagers
uh-huh
and of course uh then they came to the big city as teenagers and that the time with them wasn't as much as it was when they were out there in the small
yeah
town out in the middle of the desert
uh-huh
but they at least they had the background
yeah
and the the home uh the family type unit you know and i think when kids have that they don't get into as much trouble or seek to
right
you know do other things that are really not good for them you know
yeah
gosh our our kids were fortunate they had good good other kids to play with
yep same here
uh
maybe it's not like it is nowadays really when there's so much uh some drugs and everything else
no
no i know i'm so happy that i had mine had mine when i did and that i'm not having them now i think about it
yeah i would not want to raise a a child today
no no
from scratch you know from start
and plus i think that the uh mothers the husbands and wives both having to work
yeah
it's not a matter of choice anymore i think most people
no it's a necessity
yeah
it's a
and uh it that takes so much time away from your kids
yeah yeah i well uh
of course at the at the time i worked third shift to be with my kids during the day
yeah
you know and then uh my uh husband was with them at night
yeah
so they were always with a family member you know
yeah
and babysitters and uh day care and all that stuff kids don't really bond anymore
yeah
the mother's aren't there
well i i i told my wife that uh i don't know what young kids just starting out nowadays especially if they have uh
have some children if if they're trying to buy a house both of them have to work in order to pay for a house
oh yeah
yep
uh and the kids really spend more time at school or with a babysitter then they do with their parents
exactly
but you know uh i wonder by the time they get through paying out for all the day care center and everything else is it really worth all that
yep
rather than to wait until the children are like in school
yeah
and then go for that type of goal i think that too many people want everything now
yeah yeah i told
like we had to save and plan and
uh-huh
do without and that kind of stuff where it's now the credit cards and
yeah
i mean they just go and buy it you know
yeah well kids nowadays they want to start out with a
exact
three bedroom brick house
yep
and when we started out well we started out in first of all in an apartment and then rented a a duplex
exactly
sure
and then went from a duplex to a little old two bedroom frame house
that's my point and and i think that they should like learn how to crawl before they walk
but uh
uh-huh
it's it's too much it and it's too accessible
yeah
and they get into it and they're over their heads i think that's why there's so many divorces too
yeah
because the money becomes uh an issue the children become an issue the jobs become an issue and it's like you know what's left
yeah
just to argue and that type of thing you know
uh-huh i'm i'm i really feel for young parents nowadays
i do i do
i i just don't uh see how
they're like between a rock and a hard spot
yeah
it really is awful i think maybe the company should do more with day care centers and that type of thing it might bring families closer
yeah
or mothers to children you know because they're able to spend some time
yeah they brought that up at TI i don't know how many times to to uh have a day care
at
yeah
for working mothers but uh TI never has seen fit to do it
no huh
but there are a few companies here in Dallas that do
yeah i think that's great because i mean you know you you it's less guilt you feel knowing that you have to leave them everyday if you can go in and see them for ten or fifteen minutes around a lunch hour or
yeah
just know they're close by
yeah
you know it's it's very hard
well it was nice chatting with you
well do you work at a Attleboro or does your or your husband
yes i do i do
no i do
oh you do
yeah
okay
i work in uh building twelve in Attleboro
oh well of course i always see see uh Attleboro mission on teen news and everything else but
uh
never been up there
oh you should come it's it's a it's a nice place in the summertime though don't come in the winter
yeah
yeah i started to say what what's the temperature up there now
right now we're in the thirties
in the thirties
and we're expecting a snowstorm tomorrow into Friday
oh boy
possibly Saturday
oh me
so it's supposed to be real bad driving tomorrow afternoon
well we're supposed to get rain but no snow
but we're we're in the sixties and seventies
in the daytime
oh that's terrible
i'm jealous
we
no i it it's well this is the month where it's very unsettled because March is like between winter and spring out here it's like one minute you've got winter weather the next minute you have spring like weather everybody's got a cold
yeah
you don't know how to dress you know
yeah
so it's kind of tough
and they say that the driving tomorrow is supposed to be really bad in the afternoon
well the colds and the flu have been going around down here
have they
oh man i'm telling you everybody's and i think it's really the weather it will it will get warm one day and then not real cold but pretty cool the next day and then warm the next day
yeah
yeah
and it's just uh plus there's been an awfully lot of uh
uh mountain cedar and everything else in the air
oh wow
and it's really driving people with sinuses crazy and
sure
and sore throats and colds and whatever
yeah
yeah well uh i i can tell by your accent that you're a Texan and you know i miss hearing that they used to make fun of me because of being you know my accent
yeah
they they try to get me to say things because they they thought i talked so funny
but you sound just like um the the children that i worked with up there the same type of voice
yeah
yeah i remember i remember when i was out at Ridgecrest somebody had a flat and uh i asked them i said do you have a tire tool in the in the trunk
and he said a what and i said a tire tool
he said you mean a T A R tool and i said no a T I R E tool
yeah right like oil or oil that's true well listen it was nice speaking with you
yeah
nice talking to you Irene and you stay warm up there
okay Jim
okay
take care
bye-bye
bye-bye
