This is a rewrite of an article that
appeared in The Virginia Beach Sun, August 24, 1988.
I think sometimes the biggest overriding factor in raising kids might just be luck.
As the former governor of Maine, James B. Langley’s mother told him at his graduation, “Despite all the honors, there is one circumstance more than any other that will determine the turnout at your funeral. And that will be the weather.
That was luck Mrs. Langley was talking about.
Take summer vacations—please!
Our kids, Jessica, eight; Danielle, six; and Dylan, four were all at the age where they were pretty much confined to the house, the yard and the immediate neighborhood. Kathy and I knew that we would have to have some kind of a plan going into the summer.
