5 days until my kids leave for the summer.I am a wreck. I am looking forward to the time of freedom, but I am soooo going to miss them. I wish I didn't let them go for so long.
I officially have a high schooler! Now, I ask, when did all this time pass? There is no way she is that age, it makes me this age and I don't feel like I could be in my early 40's... Fuck you 42.
Speaking of my angelic new high schooler... we have been waiting, and waiting for the peer pressure to take a hold of her. Yep. The BF set up the vodka bottle and sure enough when we got home, it had been moved. She came into our room in the morning and after denying it, the BF said "Come on! We know you touched it, tell us what happened."
She proceeds to tell us that two of her friends came over and they drank it. But, she didn't drink any. Okay, so I'm that mom, I want to believe her. But I know better. How many times did I only have one beer? Or it was the first time and I was not telling the truth? Oh, there were many, countless times.
The very next day, she comes up to me and tells me that the weekend I went to Palm Springs, she and her friends drank and smoked cigarettes. This confession only came because one of the girls she did it with wrote about it on myspace and her mom found it. The mom was going to tell me and she wanted it to come from her. sigh.... my brain hurts.
I canceled her end of the year party. I would have restricted her but decided she will have enough restrictions in Costa Rica. Not that that is a punishment. When I told her that I told her dad, she was upset and mentioned that he doesnt even know her and didnt want him to judge her.... Great. More mom guilt that I keep pushing away. True. He doesn't know them at all. Certainly not as a teen.
I'm confident she will make it through as will I. She is only doing what she needs to do, not without consequence but how else will she know who she is?
‘Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgment.’
5 comments:
I said it before and Ill say it again you are a great MOM. At least the #4 MOM in the world! Wouldnt that be a great T-shirt? You cant do it wrong, sure you could be a worse Mom but you are the best you can be and you made tough decisions but they were for the best and you know it.
Sure you will miss them I will too. But think how much you will miss the naked pool parties when they return home!
At least you are not "getto and shifty" right now!
Love you Babe
You are the fruit that makes my cherry pie.
Turn MOM upside down and you have WOW, is that what you mean? You know, I do believe that I am a great mom (proud to be in the top 5) because I really think I have great kids.
It's all new and I need to change with her and .... next it's sex and drunk teenage sex = slutty teenager with a baby or std. JK.
I hope she is listening still. I'm gonna start ratting out her friends or at least threatening those little bitches....
Thank you for being you, babe.
lay the smack down on those little effers
hooray for naked pool parties! this is just the shit teens do and go through. she's pretty damn awesome aside from the smokes and vodka. could be worse.
@ Crazy: You dont have to tell me twice. They have it coming to them
@ Goldie: Yes could be worse. She could like Bud Light or PBR. And smoke Clove cigs... the youth really is wasted on the young.
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