I am sinking in tweens right now....6 in middle school this year! With those tween years comes so much yuck! Attitudes, behaviors, learning experiences, hormones....ya know the yucky stuff! My prayers seem to lean heavily to the "Lord please let me survive my blessings" phrase. Seriously!
I have seemingly "one" of everything. Tonight I had 4 phone calls in a row from a cell number, the boy refused to tell me who he was. Not sure how calling 4 times in a row was going to change that, but....It was obvious that one of my girls was pranking and they were trying to figure out who. It only took me one guess to know which one was prank calling(the whole world knows it was Bella...no secret). On the second to last time the number called I told the little boy (who refused to name himself), "If you don't tell me who you are then how am I going to be sure you are not called again?" Next call came from his dad. I thanked him for telling me who the phone belonged to, and apologized telling him I would take care of the problem.
I enter "that" phase again and it's so not my favorite!
Tonight I sat at the high school for 46 minutes waiting on Mercedez to get out of cheer practice. Why the long wait? Perhaps because I was told twice the wrong time. As Mercedez back peddled trying to tell me the sponsor had it wrong I reminded her that ALL the other moms only waited 5-10 minutes...meaning I was the only one who thought it was out at 5. Dinner nearly burned and part wasn't even ready yet...frustrating. Although not as frustrating as the attitude that "I" was the one who had the problem. Teenagers! Not very much different from Tweens!
It all comes at the end of a long day. Daniel will be having surgery on Wednesday. He will then be home for two weeks, only returning to school after the Doctor puts on a hard cast. I'm looking at a crazy couple of weeks! haha...Well, crazier than normal.
There is always funny to lighten the crazy. This afternoon my two hopeless and silly youngest boys were arguing. Ryan came to tattle on Seth: "I was trying to call the president and Seth put it on speaker." To which Seth replied: "you can't call the president you don't even know her number!" See...both are hopeless:)
In an exciting event, Bo's parents offered 4 tickets to the Titans game tonight in Nashville and Stuart, Doug and two friends are probably pulling up right now!! How fun:) Thanks John and Renea!!!
Yes, praying is sometimes the only thing that is going to get you thru that awkward, crazy phase of life :) I can relate with my three teens and two tweens whose priorities defy explanation and whose "problems" are of global proportions on a daily basis. We are saturated in drama here.
ReplyDeleteI have a daughter (now a delightful 23 yo) who when in high school had this scowl she wore all.the.time - FOR ME. She would be walking toward my vehicle with this sour look, like the whole world was going to fall on her head and when another teen who was walking toward her would greet her, I'd see this big, flashy smile and her face would just light up. Then she'd pass them and the frown was back. In her yearbook, the comments from the majority of her peers were all about her beautiful smile lighting up their day and making them happy when they were at their lowest points (so, between the hours of 7:30am-2pm haha) - geez, should I take that personally? :)
I think once I get them grown and can look back laughingly at a silly behavior I don't 'take it persoanlly':) Right now, my Rosie (14) refuses to let me put her hair in a ponytail....she only asks her dad, giving me the "I'm not letting you" look:) It always makes me grin inside...she asked Dad because he doesn't make any comments about "when did you last wash your hair" or "you should brush it before you ask me to put it up". The defiance is an "okay" one, not hurtful or harmful. Like your non-smiler:)
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