Well, it's true!

In a conversation with Bella on the way home from school the other day...

Bella: Mom , this is the worst day ever.
Me: Why is that?
Bella: ( long running commentary on the many bad things of the day, run-of-the mill
every day stuff )
Me: Well, Bella, at least we are here. Any day we get another day on this planet is
a good day. (or something profound like that...)
Bella: ( unconvinced) Nuh-uh, Mom. Remember that time when Grandpa was real sick?
And remember that day he died? Well THAT was the WORST day of his LIFE!

College Boy returns!

Yes- B-Boy has flown back to the nest! (Done with his freshman year-with flying colors). Actually, Daddy bird drove him back to the nest, an all day effort. Thank you Pidge! His siblings were so glad to see him. Bella flung herself into his arms when he walked in. A beautiful thing. the dogs lost their minds when they saw the van go by the front of the house. Now how did they know it was our car, let alone with B-boy in it?
College boy has already driven the boys to Scouts and back and took Bella for ice cream. Such a good college boy. Of course he is turning right around in a day and headed out to visit friends in another state and helping drive a friend back home from college.....We will see how the summer plays out with a man-boy in the nest! So glad he is back.

The Mall

Today I was transported in a time machine back to 1980. G-man and I went to the mall. I ran into a Mom friend at Aeropostle w/her daughter. I joked that we did not look like Aeropostle customers. I told her I grew up in this mall and it was funny to be shopping with my own kid. She looked at me quizzically, brows knit trying to puzzle how I was raised in a shopping mall. I explained having moved to the area as a kid, I spent a lot of my teen years cruising the very mall we were standing in. Funny how my (little) soon-to -be teeneger was all stylin' and chattin' with his peeps there between the flip flops and sweatshirts...and I would have been the same age as little tiny girl he was chattin' with- thinking back then I was all that and a bag of chips. These days I am not all that and I definitely ate the bag of chips! Time rolls on, does it not? Seeing the kids as they grow and remembering what it was like being certain ages gives me a lot of perspective, makes me try to respect the kids more or at least empathize-remembering how I felt at that age. Makes me feel very old now, but very glad to be the wiser...sooo glad I can be me and not shopping for perfection at the mall anymore. God bless our teens!