Another mating question. Did you marry your mom/dad?
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Day four - still no Dad, mom incubating on her own...
Comments (8)Thanks everyone! I really don't think the male was just being scarce. I had been watching this pair for a week and a half before they started laying eggs. I would always see them together and I would always see both of them. If the female was in the nestbox, Dad sat outside watching. For all four eggs (being laid) Dad was there. If I went near the box I got scolded by both the male and the female. Then that one day as I was watching Mom just acted funny and that was when I realized I hadn't seen the male. Today was day five of not seeing him. I realized I could have missed him when watching but I really think if he had been around when I went down there he would of scolded me too, not just the mom. Now an update from today. I was watching and I saw a male BB! Watched them for a LONG time, lots and lots of wing waving going on by both but mostly the male. Mom would go in the nestbox, peek back out and then fly to the male who was in a tree near it, then she would go back in. She did stay in after awhile also and the male went to the nestbox at one point and peeked in. I went down during this and set some crickets out. Mom immediately went down to eat, male just watched and wing waved. When I went down there mom scolded me, the male did not. I think this is a new male but I guess I won't know for sure unless the eggs hatch and I find out if he feeds them or not, either that or if he gets her to start a new nest. What do you think?? I am going to post this question in a new thread too as I am curious what everyone thinks as to if this is a new male or not. Does wing waving happen during incubation by an established couple?? Donna...See MoreHow often do you phone your married sons?
Comments (71)This is evidently still an interesting topic. I almost never call my DS or DIL. I told them at the beginning of their marriage that I would love to hear from them -- whenever they want to call me. (I had an intrusive MIL.) They married one another, not me. With two grammar school age kids and work, they are BUSY. I only hope they have time to talk to one another! (DIL's family is not intrusive either.) DIL never calls me, but will sometimes email me. DS will call every 4 - 6 weeks. He sometimes uses speaker phone so we can chat with the whole family. DIL and I will chat for half an hour if *I* ask to speak with her individually. DH and I love to hear from them, but we have all the time in the world. They don't. It's good to have 'ties that bind' as long as the binding isn't a stranglehold....See MoreWhat do you call your in-laws if NOT 'Mom/Dad'?
Comments (29)I call my in-laws by their first names. they asked me if that would be OK when we got married, and I was very relieved. I would not even consider calling them mom or dad, because for me, it would feel like a betrayal to my parents in my heart. think if you were in a situation in which you were divorced and your husband remarried someone that you either couldn't stand or were jealous of. and your children started calling her mom. I would think that would be painful. so in that same thought process, I wonder how our parents feel to hear their adult children calling someone else mom or dad. Actually, I would like to hear from those whose adult children are married. Would it bother you to hear your adult son/daughter call someone else mom or dad?...See MoreWhat important things did you learn from your dad?
Comments (36)My father taught me how to open a peanut, how to drive, and to never believe a thing he promised. (Out of sight = out of mind.) Typical of him is a letter I found among my mother's things after she died. It was written from his club, where he was living before my parents divorce was final. In it he writes of his deep love for his daughter and how he will always care for her. I was three at the time. (He would remember that from time to time and buy something extravagant for me, but he never paid the small alimony or child support ordered by the court.) I think I've figured out how he came to be the way he was -- forever striving for the love and approval of a pair of grandiose parents who had absolutely nothing to feel grand about. He was a second son. He achieved greater financial success than any of his siblings (6) and supported or helped to support his parents and all the others, to no avail. All parental affection was bestowed upon only one child, the first son. My father never got past that unmet craving. That, and his skirt-chasing, were why my mother finally gave up....See MoreAdella Bedella
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