[speaker001:] do you have children
[speaker002:] uh yes uh we have two sons uh one's a freshman in college and one's a sophomore in high school and you
[speaker001:] ah I have one that's a freshman in high school a daughter and a son who's a sixth grader in a middle school
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and I spend most of my time carpooling the story of my life
[speaker002:] oh yes yes uh
[speaker001:] my kids are involved in sports my daughters played basketball for six years and my son plays football I my rule is that they can't play a sport the same time of the year
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] because there's just not enough of me to drive them around everywhere
[speaker002:] uh well uh yeah we spend a lot spend a did spend a lot of time uh it really helped when the uh older one was old enough to get his license and could uh
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] drive around by himself although that brought in a whole another set of problems but uh for yeah for one thing uh
[speaker001:] I know I know the insurance
[speaker002:] but yeah we uh we do but our two had had uh totally different interests so that there there was not much uh overlap as such the the older one is not was not at all into uh sports for the most part uh he participated band and and uh scouts were his two big things and uh
[speaker001:] yes my son is in both band and scouts too
[speaker002:] and the younger younger one is uh uh the sports one and the whatever season it is he's he's playing although football's really his favorite yeah
[speaker001:] oh gee
[speaker002:] so uh yeah we spend a lot of time uh uh carpooling and uh you know and then trying to be uh at as much as possible with anything that they that they do but then uh
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] we also did do spend uh time with them trying to trying to uh you know just family time uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] we at a at a fairly young age we started teaching them to play games and card games and so forth and and uh uh although we didn't uh do it as much or as often as uh I would have liked to I would like to do that as a as a family and and some TV watching what about you
[speaker001:] yeah we found this Oriental tile game called mah-jongg
[speaker002:] yeah I've I've I've heard of that I've never actually never actually played it but
[speaker001:] have you well it's really fun um one of my neighbors moved here from Memphis and a lot of them played it and she started a group going in the neighborhood and my kids wanted to learn how to play it and it's more fun with four people
[speaker002:] yeah yep
[speaker001:] and it's a game that none of their friends know how to play and they both enjoy it so if they want to play they have to play with mom and dad so uh we play that a lot with them
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh we like to go miniature golfing and to movies we have family that lives outside of the state so we
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] go visit both sets of grandparents and and take car trips so that and my husband and son go camping
[speaker002:] yeah so do we okay
[speaker001:] with scouts mostly my daughter and and I hate camping so we go shopping so that just kind of works out real well and um I'm a writer
[speaker002:] yeah  yeah
[speaker001:] by profession and my daughter enjoys writing too so a lot of times she and I will travel to writers conferences together
[speaker002:] oh now that's neat yeah no we never had anything like like that but that
[speaker001:] yes yeah so that gives us special time together too and she's on the yearbook staff and things like that so I can help her with that and she gives me ideas for my writing too so
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] um-hum oh well good well I you know in terms of in terms of any sorts of trends I you know obviously obviously things are different from for for me than and my children than when I was growing up I I I grew up on a farm uh in Iowa and uh
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] you know the whole family was around the the whole time and and what my father did was was uh interseting you know obvious to me and I I helped out with it but uh although I have brought my boys into to see where I work it's not that easy and it's it's certainly not at all common and they they just don't really have that same idea so that there's uh it's it's a whole different uh kind of thing there then then uh
[speaker001:] right my husband's taken us to work with him and we still don't know what he does so we just say he travels a lot so that kind of covers it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah well that makes it hard though for in terms of you know family time with with him
[speaker001:] yes yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I've been lucky in that respect that I don't uh don't travel too much
[speaker001:] he's been on temporary duties where he's been gone nine months
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] yes so those are the real killers if he's just gone he's gone three weeks right now and that's that's mild compared to the big ones so we just you know
[speaker002:] yeah yes yeah
[speaker001:] I just do the carpooling and and handle whatever needs to be done and something major always needs to be done so
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker001:] you just have to to handle it till he gets home and hopefully he won't have too many surprises when he gets home
[speaker002:] yeah right