PARENT - Job Description
POSITION : Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop
JOB DESCRIPTION :Long term, team players needed, for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournamentsin far away cities! Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.
RESPONSIBILITIES :The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck20zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be a willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.
POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION :None. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, withoutcomplaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately s urpass you
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :None required unfortunately.On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.
WAGES AND COMPENSATION :Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.
BENEFITS :While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth,unconditional love,and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.
AND A FOOTNOTE 'THERE IS NO RETIREMENT -- EVER!!!**
Justin, my 18 year old grandson, just passed all his test today, to become a MARINE...We are all very proud of him. Our grandson, Jarrod has been a MARINE for the past three years, and his grandfather who was also a MARINE is so very proud of him. Both of Justin's grandfathers, Joe and Ron, were MARINES. Guess maybe it runs in the family... 
Traveling along I-40 on our way to California we pass the "Cross Of Our Lord Jesus Christ" It is 40 miles east of Amarillo, Texas just west of Groom, on I-40 Exit 112. It is a beautiful place to stop and take a break. It is next to the highway with nothing around it and believe me it takes your breath away.
We saw the Cross for miles before we made our way to it. There is a beautiful gift shop that is now open. If you are near it you really need to stop and see it. Here is one of the web sites you can visit and see all the work that went into building this beautiful stopping place along I-40. http://www.crossministries.net/ Check it out, you won't be sorry. Happy Easter dear ones....
I have been putting my Family Heritage Scrapbooking pages on Scrapbook.com for a year or more and meeting a lot of new friends. The other day I got a message from a lady that had seen my pages on the web site. The pictures I had been posting of my family was her family also!!!! It turned out that her grandfather was my uncle. I was doing the "Happy Dance" all over the place. As you know I am heavy into genealogy and this just made my day!!!! She let me know that there were a bunch of "Hopper Cousin's" on facebook. I have a facebook page and it didn't take this old girl long to find them. I have been having a blast with them. What Fun!!!!!! Any of you Hopper's that are reading this....please come join us. OK.
back row. In the front is Cora Martha, Augustus, Lucy, with baby Melton, Ida Vadis and little Alvia. This picture was taken about 1913. My Aunt Ann told me she was named after Ida Vadis as her name was Ann Vadis Hopper.
My daughter sent me a text last night with a picture of this little guy that said "meet my new baby". Of course I thought... she has gone and bought a MONKEY! She already has two lizards! So! what am I suppose to think??? Come to find out...Josh has a friend that works at the Safari park near us and is babysitting this little four week old baby for the week-end. Now that I know that he is not staying...I can say "HOW CUTE!"
The "Hopper Family" about 1938.
I am of this young man of ours ;-)
