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...
LOL! Some one should call CPS on you, depriving your poor children that way!
ReplyDeleteFive. But only four are worth watching, two of those only occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at the US Geological Survey site earlier. Did you know you had several earthquakes in your area yesterday?
Sketchy, go ahead and call. I could use some down time, by myself in a small cell where I wouldn't have to clean, or do dishes, or listen to teenagers whine about no cable tv.
ReplyDeleteRichard, that was me, sorry. I was jumping around a lot. ::grin::
Here is a joke I just read in A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book:
ReplyDeleteDo you know why Isaac was only twelve years old when God called Abraham to sacrifice his son?
Because if he had been a teenager, it wouldn't have been a sacrifice.
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Blessed are all mothers of teenagers, for they get much grief.
Oh Kill them, that is SO true! I've also heard that grandchildren are your reward for not killing your teenagers.
ReplyDeleteEither way. it works for me. :grin:
It has been interesting to see how they are communicating more with us. It's been like this: "wow, who are you?" "I'm your Mother" "How long have you been living here?" "Since you were born"
What's on channel 40? I think it's the history channel here... ;)
ReplyDeleteChannel 40 here is the Disney channel.
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