Jul
My daughter has been saving her pennies over the past year, and we used it to order a refurbished iPod Touch last week. She’s eagerly awaiting the arrival of a lovely brown box, stalking the door, hoping to ambush the UPS guy.
Yesterday, both the UPS and FEDEX trucks rolled down our street, depositing neat cardboard boxes on the front stoop. She dashed eagerly outside to retrieve them, only to find out that they contained back-ordered school uniforms, and her youth bible for religion class.
Boy. That was NOT a happy face.
Jun
Coincidentally, these are the colors the “new” mall in Jackson was decorated with when it was built in the late ’80s.
Jun
Today, my daughter asked me why chocolate was toxic to dogs and cats, but not to people.
“Perhaps, because they are animals?” I replied.
“Well, Mom, we are animals, too. So what is the difference?” she said.
“Hmmm. Good point. Maybe, because they are carnivores and we are omnivores. I wonder if that makes a difference?” I answered.
She thought on that for a moment, then she exclaimed, “Well, that could be why the dinosaurs went extinct. Cocoa beans did them in.”
Jun
Meet our new family member: Deuce.
The big guy is my sister’s pal, Jax. Jax appreciated the loaner of the new toy that moved and pounced and generally was a lot of fun. This picture makes me imagine him saying, “Hey MOM! Can we keep him?”
Jax is handsome and he knows it:
May
About a week ago (around the time of the first date), I asked my son if he had kissed this girl. Just the sort of question every boy wants to address with his Mom, right? He shook his head, and said, no, he hadn’t. He was convincing.
Either that, or I had my fingers in my ears, going la,la,la.
Today, I told him I had seen the photographs from the end of year school party (one of the perks of facebook). He looked at me, quietly.
I said, “there’s no way, after seeing that photo of you guys draped on each other, that I’m going to believe you haven’t kissed her.”
My son looked at me, without a pause, and said, “so, how about this economy, huh?”
Apr
***SLAM!***
Puberty sucks. I have NO idea where she gets this attitude from.
