all of our children are um
uh well two of them are back in the house now but they're all grown twenty one and over
uh-huh
so um
and how did you spend time with them when they were young
i guess like everybody else soccer games and all sorts of games and carpools and
traveling and um they we seem to be together enough
um-hum
well
um was there was always one parent here at least because um we'd never usually leave together
um-hum
and i usually work teach at night and my wife was here in the daytime and i mean at night and then i was here most of the day if they were when they were here so
they didn't spend a lot of time by themselves
how many children do you have oh um-hum
three
two girls and a boy
um-hum well i had two boys and i'm a grandmother now so my children are grown also and they live away from me so i don't see them much but
so
oh you are
well we had uh that those they were all away and now there's uh one's coming back from college and the other one has just graduated and stayed back home so
uh-huh
oh i i tried to spend a lot of time with my children when they were young we spent lot of value time um creating things and
building things together i feel the families watch too much TV today
um-hum
oh absolutely yeah that's the truth we didn't have a TV for three and a half years when they were in school early school for some reason and they did so much better and then we went back to TV's
um-hum
you can just see it that
well i tried to put a limit on it when they were in school to so they could only watch so many hours per day of TV so
um-hum where'd your kids go to school
well we traveled we moved around quite a bit so they went to a lot of different schools
oh
they weren't here in north Dallas huh oh
no
they did go a year in Palestine
uh-huh
but we did move around quite a bit so
yeah well i don't know that i i just uh that's that that TV's probably one of the problems and then both parents working and
but
right right
uh that's a i don't think a good situation but i don't imagine it'll change
i don't think so either it takes two incomes now anyway
right
so uh
but i feel that i didn't get to spend as much time with my children as i could have
or as as i should have i i was a working mother and
you probably didn't if
that's right if you had to work
uh-huh
uh it's just almost impossible
um-hum
especially when they get up to the age where they have so many things they want to do on their own so
um-hum
i remember the things that they really liked my oldest son he liked kites he always wanted always building kites and working on those he loved kites
um-hum
so uh well my all three of mine ran sports so we spent an
time lot of time with their different sports activities because they all played and uh
uh-huh
now they're all in college or one two one out and two in still in college so
well mine they were in the music end of it instead of sports they did my oldest son did play a little football and soccer but i had them in the band they were playing horns in the band
um-hum
yeah
so well we probably if they're alive and kicking we probably did did a decent job
yeah nobody's perfect all you can do is your best and
right
shit absolutely
that's true
uh-huh
so
anyway well
well i have three grandsons now and i one of them uh two of them's in California and one of them's in Arizona and i'm gonna get to see them at Christmas time so
oh great yeah
i uh it's gonna i'm gonna enjoy that
i would hope so
they're all little they're little kids so but i bought little things for them to work on and to try to keep them busy um-hum
yeah that will be
yeah that'll
that'll be fun look forward to that you're gonna fly out there
no i'm going to drive to Arizona uh hum
oh you are
ooh i've done that a few times
that's a tough drive
it's worth it to see my family
sure you just gonna try to spend spend the the
uh spend the night somewhere
oh yes uh-huh
well we always stopped at Pecos that seemed like like it was a good
i have a sister in New Mexico so i'm gonna stop there at my sister's uh-huh
oh yeah well that'll be great
so well anyway it's good to talk to you
well the they won't be be upset with us if we hang up too soon
i don't i don't know i think
i haven't done that before usually i talk and talk and talk
they usually come on and say something don't they
uh yeah when our five minutes are up
well that's all right
how long have you been with uh TI
oh i'm just a temporary i work for Manpower there and
oh
oh okay
and uh what do you teach in
i teach history
oh
yeah
oh that's very few people are interested in that history yeah and chemistry
so uh
yeah there's not not many people like it but it's uh you can get them get them hooked on it if your pretty good
what are your son your children what are they going into they you said they were in college
uh the boy is going
