Today I battled the weeds in my yard and won! The back and the front look as perfect as it gets. I can feel all the work in my back right now. I'll be sore in the morning.....but I'll wake up to no weeds. At least for the moment.Daughter stayed home today. This week is TAKS testing. That wonderful state testing system created by our current president. What a joke......as if TAKS testing actually creates scholars. My daughter laughs at the test. My dyslexic son may never pass them all. In the end standardized testing will never improve our educational system.
Son wants a motorcycle. The kid, on his own, called our insurance company and got a quote. He also went to a motorcycle dealership and test drove a motorcycle and got a payment plan with a salesperson. We've always said that a motorcycle will have to come when he is 18 and not living at home. He turns 18 next year. Lord help me with this one!
We've also told him that in order to get a tattoo he must be 18 or older. We've also said that if he wants to locate his birth mother he must be 18 or older.
Next Year he is 18. Lord help me!
Help me to be ready to let him go.
Help me.
I pray.
Amen.
3 comments:
Chuckling at the motorcycle and tattoo references.. We told the kids that before they pierced or tattooed it.. think of how it would look in business suit at a job interview or in officewear later.
Regarding the motorcycle.. It was no motorcycles while you are living at home. When my son was 25 and his fiance called off teh wedding 8 days before and refused to move out, bringing her new boyfriend over.......Long sad story. I told him to move home for a bit. He said I can't remember the no motorcycles while living at home rule?
You never know the lessons they've learned til much later. Hang in there
The proud mother of a 29 yr old son and 30 yr old dd. Both are productive wonderful members of society.
You have to set guidelines and rules for all concerned. It is funny that with age limits like 18, it seems to come so quickly. Hopefully he will use his better judgement as a young adult and realize why you wanted him to wait for all of these things. I have a 22 year old that had similar aspirations. I didn't use 18 as a reference as I always said that 18 is simply a number. I used maturity as a guideline and told him that when he showed me that he was ready to make the decisions on his own we would all know. He is now 22, going to school, working full time, and living with his best friend in a duplex and for all practical purposes doing well. We all have to follow instincts and do our best and we seem to get through it.
You will love your son and you will both make the changes that you need to get through this. You are a good man and he is a good kid. I feel confident that you will get through it. Be patient and supportive even when it hurts.
I feel your pain.
i hate to tell you, husband, but it's not NEXT year that he turns 18. it's THIS year.
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