“Shelly & I are glad you stopped by!”~Eric

“Thank you for your kind words, Frigga. When you have children, you might change your thoughts I appreciate you reading my post.”~Eric

“:lol: It’s hard having “mom” back in the house isn’t it! But, you are blessed to have her. Congratulations on 30 years of marriage AND keeping the romance. Shelly isn’t *quite* as bad as we pretend she is on the blog. That part is *mostly* story. You expressed yourself very well! Thanks for commenting.”~Eric

“Dawn, what are you trying to talk us into doing? We don’t babysit. Shelly has had a few good moments in her wicked past….well, there was *one*…”~Eric

I’ve got three teenagers here and the testosterone is clogging the air. My 16 y/o has an 18 y/o girlfriend and in my opinion, his response this morning to who slept in the tent with him last night on a school overnight was a little too long for my liking. Thank God for his 14 y/o brother who is here all the time to be a chaperone.

Romance? Definitely a tough one in our house. Even if we do go out, we usually end up at Home Depot, ooo baby, ooo baby. Good luck with the contest!

“I don’t know that we will win, but Shelly asked me to write it. I bet your older son just looooves having his little brother tagging along. You do have your share of testosterone floating around. As for me starting to blog, I doubt it, but we need another computer anyway!” ~Eric

What a great surprise! A guest blogger and an excellent one, to boot! (When you see your stats and comments on this piece, you’ll forget all about e-bay because you’ll have caught blogging fever!!)

I hear ya, Eric!!! My daughters are 16, 14, and 13 and my son is 11. I swear, I would have felt more comfortable leaving them home alone at the age of 4 than I do now. We don’t have “girlfriends” yet, but the boyfriends….oh, wow. The last one was afraid to come into the house to meet my hubby. 16 year old daughter said he’s “not cool” with cops.

I hear something like that and I immediately hear sirens and start thinking “PULL OVER, BUDDY!”

The hubby asked “Why? Is he wanted for something?”

Then we got yelled at because she says it’s hard enough getting asked out when your father is a cop, let alone having us chase away the ones that will go out with her by (gasp!) wanting to meet them.

Too bad! The way I figure it is she’ll thank us many, many many years from now when she’s planning romantic anniversary dates instead of conjugal visits.

Hubby thought it would be a riot to go outside, sneak up behind the car and tap on the driver’s side window with his nightstick. I agree, it would have been fun, but we controlled ourselves

My hubby’s thinking is that if you are going to father three really attractive teenaged cheerleaders, you are wise to have a profession that allows you to be armed. I can’t say I disagree

Hope you win with your article here! It’s a great one!!! If you do, I won’t offer to babysit because your son is too old for that, but we have a great surveillance package available for $100

Jessica The Rock Chick

“Good to meet you, too, Rock Chick. Thanks for your kind words (I doubt Shelly will ever move over long enough to let me see the stats). With three teenage daughters, you have it much worse than we do. I like your husband’s thinking. We may take you up on the surveillance package ”~Eric

Found you via the blogblast. My entry is here:
http://mamaknj.blogspot.com/2007/06/you-know-you-need-date.html

“Thanks for stopping by to visit. I was a little nervous, since it’s my first time to write for Shelly’s blog.”~Eric