[speaker001:] okay my children are all grown up
[speaker002:] oh okay well no see I've got two children and uh they're one's uh just turned to be a teenager and the other one is on his way so
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I uh I'm a single parent so I think it makes it more difficult for me to um you know find time with my my children since I work and then of course take care of the house and and all this good kind of stuff
[speaker001:] I'll bet
[speaker002:] um so it's a real uh it's a real problem for me
[speaker001:] I'll bet it is what is the favorite thing you do with your children
[speaker002:] yeah um the the thing that we like to do the most is to watch TV together and uh the kids like to play Nintendo but I'm no good at it so I don't like to play that's right that's right
[speaker001:] um-hum you just watch them play huh I I've tried it once or twice but I didn't feel like I was very good at it either my grandson got me to one day but
[speaker002:] me either yeah they talk about these different levels and stuff and I've never got off of level one yes yeah
[speaker001:] different worlds and how do you get to another world you know and I I don't even know where they're talking about
[speaker002:] uh I know I I agree with you so uh but no the other thing I think we like to go to the movies too that's the yeah that's a that's a neat thing so I guess we're all in um you know movie uh fanatics or whatever around here so we like to do those kind of things
[speaker001:] do you yeah I know when our kids were growing up our we were big into water sports we had a boat and they all skied and in the summer we spent most weekends on the lake with them skiing and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they always took other friends with them and we had a lot of fun doing that but I had all girls so we didn't do too much sportswise
[speaker002:] oh how neat uh-huh oh
[speaker001:] I find my grandchildren are very involved in soccer and baseball and little boys do all of those things but
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum oh yeah oh yeah see I have a son and uh you know it's football in the fall and and baseball in the spring and and it's one activity after another I I'm constantly going back and forth and
[speaker001:] uh-huh I'll bet you really are
[speaker002:] yeah uh my daughter has uh tennis so it's between tennis and and bowling my I bowl so you know we're pretty active as a sports you know in in the family so it's it's really neat
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well when mine were real little they all played soccer but you know that was just for a couple of years when they were pretty small for girls and then they got more interested in other things I'm not sure that they would admit it at that age that it was boys but I think that's probably what it was
[speaker002:] uh-huh boys oh yeah I I know that uh my daughter uh even though she goes out with the the sports and everything uh yeah she likes to watch the football for uh the kids oh I'm sorry
[speaker001:] uh oh
[speaker002:] uh-oh that was a cat that hit the telephone get away cat gosh I guess it's why they wanted to do on this type telephone because there's all kind of activity that goes on but uh yeah my uh my kids are they're starting to grow up you know it's not gonna be too many more years before I uh uh you know they'll be gone and and uh there won't be as many activities do you uh
[speaker001:] but they but you enjoy them I think the older mine get the more I enjoy them
[speaker002:] yeah I I agree with you I I do I'm so glad they're out of the that young real young age and the babies
[speaker001:] um-hum and I mean I didn't I it wasn't that I didn't like them when they were little but the older they got I enjoyed them as teenagers
[speaker002:] right yes yes
[speaker001:] and now that they're each of course three girls they're each becoming they're they've all become women in themselves that it's been neat to watch them
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] how what kind of mothers they are what kind of wives you know
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah that's so that's so true well do you do the do your daughters live close where you can go out and
[speaker001:] how they do things and two of them live real close to me so we we spend a lot most of our time spent with them is they come over to eat
[speaker002:] oh good oh yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and bring the kids and we play with the kids you know but uh we don't oh we go camp out they camp out and we spend weekends at the in the country with them quite a bit but
[speaker002:] yeah yeah um-hum uh-huh uh
[speaker001:] as far as doing any activity now that the grand kids are here we all just stay around the house mostly it's too much effort to go somewhere with all the kids
[speaker002:] oh yeah well that's true oh yes oh yes well I know especially when they grow up like that so I'm trying these these last five or six years I'm trying to make them really special and
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh very precious since that's uh about the only time we've got left
[speaker001:] they'll always remember it too
[speaker002:] yes yes absolutely I I think so too
[speaker001:] I hear mine saying well I remember mother and daddy used to take us to do so and so I need to take my boys to do this or that you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I remember the year we went to Disney World as quick as my kids are big enough we're gonna go to Disney World you know
[speaker002:] there we go I know I know they can't wait
[speaker001:] yeah they just really can't wait to be able to take their kids where they had fun but
[speaker002:] that's right that's right yeah so well I still got a few more years so I'm uh I'm hanging onto those and doing as much activity as I can with them
[speaker001:] do you work
[speaker002:] yes uh-huh I sure do and uh work full time so uh it it that cuts into our free time right there
[speaker001:] uh-huh it really does the time you have with them has to be quality time then
[speaker002:] that's right that's right and uh vacations are very special for us and activities
[speaker001:] I imagine that they have uh some a lot of homework too
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you know this being a school night and stuff so uh it's it's in the same old you you know routine of uh you know doing homework and you know trying to talk between all of that and and uh the other activities that we all have
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well there's just so many things to do with them nowadays so and especially if they're active kids like you say you bowl
[speaker002:] um-hum