Hi, Alice:

Good for you! It surely took a strong commitment to strike out, free-lance in order to be there for your son. I raised two sons on my own starting when they were 8 and 14, but I was blessed to live on the property where I worked, so I was just a walk up the hill for them during the summer, and when they got home from school.

Your posting reminds me of a great song the Bob Franke wrote with a line I'll surely misquote (but get with the right meaning,talking about being a Father: "It's not tje job I do best, but it's the best job I do." :-)

Jerry