Will Soon Be Graduating From High School This means, in some small measure, I have successfully managed to get him through 12 years of school and to the age of 18 alive. No small accomplishment, that. Today he called for a ride home after he rode the bus most of the way to our house. As it was about 90 degrees outside, I obliged. I'm a good mom, plus it got me out of a very hot house and into the sweet deliciousness of my air conditioned vehicle. My oldest and youngest daughters went along for the ride and they spotted The Boy before I did. "What's up with his pants?" Indeed. The operative word for his pants was up . He wears those extremely skinny jeans and he'd rolled them up to about knee level and he was walking towards us with a grimace on his face. He was in pain. You see, five hours earlier, in the throes of near heat exhaustion, he rolled the legs of his pants up and then his legs swelled up. He was unable to remove his own pants or roll down what he...
Happy Fourth of July from your neighbor up North.
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ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday America! Sigh, everything I do is "belated." Pammy, hope you're having fun on the trip.
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Gosh. You Americans and your patriotism.
ReplyDeleteWish we had a birthday to celebrate in the UK. Trouble is, no-one can remember us being born. Or who the parents were...