Either big brother is SUPER responsible or mom & dad want a vacation! Yea, I'd vote for the latter, too.QUOTE]
Well, it is a single mom with 5 kids... the 18yo doesn't live a home, and she and the other 4 children live with her father... who just happens to be the minister that married husband and I almost 30 years ago. The grandpa is now retired and works as a hospital chaplain... but the mom has kids from different marriages... and hasn't quite been as attentive as I had thought she would be - seeing that she grew up as a PK (preachers kid).
Last week, my two girls begged to go with BFF, her mother and little brother to the mall on a Friday night. Sounded like an appropriate thing to be able to do. Well, the mom dropped the kids off at the mall, went out on a date, and picked them up almost 3 hours later (not the 2 hours we were told it would be). Of course, no one said that was the plan. Gee. KSM