My nephew the brony

Yes mother raised he and his sister. Home schooled thirty miles out of town and they have no real social skills and no education after that. I don't want to argue home schooling. It works for some- we chose not to and two of three have graduated college and are blessed to be working in their field of study. The third (and our family overachiever) is a Sophomore in college now. I pinch myself every day when I think of our kids.

I don't see my brother too much but have thought of asking where things are leading but I feel he is frustrated that neither of his kids seem to be going anywhere with their lives. I know he hates being gone but they've finally gotten caught up and are doing well financially. He had quit everything 20 years ago and started with Amway. They nearly lost their property and home and had to scrape by for many years while paying off debt. To his credit he did take care of things on his own through hard work but at the expense of being with his kids, especially his son.

Everything he's ever done in life he's done to the extreme and I kind of wonder if the son is carrying on with that.

My son was aghast when he learned about the brony deal with his cousin. I teased him that the pressure is now on him to keep the family name going. He and his cousin are the only two boys.

My son just called and said he'd be coming by home for about four days so I'm excited about that. It means we can work on our cars this weekend. He's got my old '74 Satellite I signed over to him when he graduated college. He's doing a resto-mod on it and it is really going to be sharp.