Why??
Because the acorns are falling like meteors. It's Fall after all. I should know, I was just on the deck and had to come in as they was a gust of wind followed by a barrage of those suckers.
I have a house full at the moment.We are the Kool Aid house, where all the kids convene. I'm glad about that, I truly am. I want the kids to always come over and hang at our house, so I could keep my eye on them. Not that they can't do anything right under my nose. It happens. I know. I did it. My kids are young yet, but you never know when IT happens.
Recently I had a call from a friend. Her middle school aged kid was drinking. He was hiding vodka in his water bottle. She and her husband are savvy people and she was beside herself wondering how the heck this could have happened without her knowledge.
It just does.
I remember being astounded with how much my children change while I'd be staring at them. It goes too damn fast. So I understand how she could have missed this.
We tend to miss a lot where kids are concerned. We just do, and there is little we can do about it. You can be staring at them and they morph.
It's like my backyard. You can be sitting there staring at the trees and WHAMO an acorn comes down right on your head
Life. You need a helmet.
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It's a miracle our kids made it through adolescence without any serious difficulties. I'm sure they did things we didn't know about, but they survived and now they are grownups. A friend told me a saying that goes, "When they are little they step on your toes; when they are older they step on your heart." Good for you for keeping an eye on them.
Yes kids keep growing up without asking permission. It's really scary!!!!
agoodlistener... i love that saying.. mind if i steal it?
mike... how dare they!!!
xo
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
The kids are growing! The kids are growing!
Hey Tim.. aka Chicken Little.. tell them to knock it off!!
:)
In february, I will have...*gulp*...teenagers.
I have absolutely no idea what to do with that information.
Nor do I know how to parent a teenager. I don't even LIKE teenagers. :)
oh PS: I have something for you today. :) xoxox
We got some kinda horse chesnut thangs down here in vuh-GIN-yuh. Dark things, bigger than golf balls ("sans pustule") but just as hard. One went clunk and left a dent in the hood of my new car!
Yeesh.
Wear a garage!
Great post- just passing by- hope to read more!
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