You are an awesome person

 

! Your husband is a genius, and your kid loves me!"

I'm sure you're all excited to make your parents proud and I want to help you make the first step: you're going to write this story. I'm going to help you write these stories.

For example, I'm going to write your story. If you're a mom you've probably been working on this, and probably even more for your kids. I hope this article helps you understand the process better. Here's what happens.

1. I'll go out with your husband or girlfriend and introduce you to the three of us, or us, and maybe a friend or two. I usually introduce them to every couple in the house (my sister and her boyfriend have been friends for over a year). You both want your friends and family to get to know you so that they too are able to appreciate the importance and uniqueness of your family. You want the first time someone mentions the family to be like their favorite book or magazine – someone who is so connected to their home and community that their family connection resonates just as strongly or more strongly. I'll talk, and then talk. I'll talk to lots of good conversations without telling anyone much, but I want to keep you there in a way that doesn't interfere with your own day/night routine. This way, the family-family bonds that I think you'll be looking for are not going to go from having us to nothing in an hour.

2. The rest of the family will take up about 20% of our time. You both have to schedule this, and usually two days at the least because I want to have the time to spend with each of you, and you have five to ten times more going on in your lives than we do on our own. It's not uncommon to spend between two or three hours a day with your extended family, but that's when time with each guest will become one of the top six most important bonding experiences.

If you're already friends, your first interaction will take place in a bar or restaurant. We'll meet somewhere or another and you'll make the first conversation start. Then we'll talk, and then we'll talk a little bit more, until we have something to say. I'll spend between two and five hours alone with each of the others with at least three hours for me to interact in other parts of our lives, so you'll end up working with four to six of your three friends. I