You guys need to counsel me; my baby's going to be 16 today (April 25th)!!!! Yep, Pat's 16, and my life is officially over! What happens after this milestone? Oh, I know... let me guess - hours and hours of worrying the first night he takes the car out; the first night he goes to pick up his girlfriend and they go somewhere ... by themselves; uhmmmmm, what about I'm sitting here at home, waiting for him to come home, and I hear a police siren, or an ambulance???? I know, I'll need medicated - that's a given... but, really, what am I going to do? Does it get easier???? Is it possibly just the gosh awful anticipation of this day??? My saving grace, I guess, is the fact that it will be 6 months after this time until that dreadful day comes when he gets his license, right? I have six whole months to get used to this idea, right????? You gotta admit folks, we're luckier than our parents were.... We never had to wait the dreaded six months - (BTW, how stupid was that, not having to wait to get your license???) ... Hey, what about the States that the driving age is 17??? Why can't that be us???? Should I move to one of those States??? That's an idea - I actually just thought of that while I was typing this.... Brilliant, that's the answer!
No, comon' you guys, you know me better than that, and you all know that I'm perfectly fine with this.... Perfectly fine with the idea that my life will be over in approx. six months, and that my hair will now be a totally gray.... Yea, you guys all know I'm ok with that, right????
Question? Why do our kids want to grow up so fast??? Why don't they want to savor and enjoy their high school years? I assume that's just a thing we all do as we grow up; no one can tell you any different, right? Don't you remember your parents telling you that when you were in high school? I guess it's something we all go through, and no matter what anybody says, we want to grow up. Not me babe.... Take me back to 1975...Let me do it all over again....I wanna go to all our basketball games again, all our football games (it would be really really good for me to go to HS games and cheer for the winning team for a change! ha!); the bon fires, the pep rallies, the drive-ins.... Plus, think about it? We're so much smarter now.... How cool would that be???? When we reach our 40's, you have a choice - you can go on, live your mature life, have your mature jobs, OR>>>>>> Get this: you can go back to high school and do it all over again???? Ha!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm crackin' myself up here while I'm typing!!!)
Ok.....I'm done now..... I'm a lucky Mom, with a healthy, growing boy who happens to be celebrating his 16th birthday... that's not so bad, right? (Someone, please please call me and invite me out for a libation tonight, so that I can get through this dreadful day!) Just kiddin'.... I love it and you know it!
Goodnight all..... Hug your kids!
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