Dear Sassy,
I just wanted to tell you how proud I was last Saturday, as I watched you sit with the gentleman conducting your admissions interview at Smith and Wesson University here in the lovely state of Oregon.
You were poised and articulate, and I had to force myself to see you as the beautiful young woman you have become, and not the pig-tailed tomboy I watched throw mud balls at her sister in the back yard.
I was so very proud of the fact that both the admissions counselor (and the college coach who met us there) had only glowing things to say about you, and your interview.
It sure is a good thing they weren’t at our house Friday night when you unleashed the screaming, hormonally-charged banshee rant upon your mother.
But then, they didn’t ask you to clean the kitchen now, did they?
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Oh wait, maybe I don't want to know...
But which is worse... birth or any random week with teenage girls...
Ya know, if you loved me, you'll lie...
I will have 3 eventually.... July will turn my first 13.
WHO HELPED YOU PUT THAT WIDGET AT THE END OF YOUR BLOG POSTS AND I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WON'T TELL ME HOW YOU DID IT AND I HATE YOU AND WE'RE HEADING FOR DIVORCE MY FRIEND.
Love,
Suzy
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Vodkamom- I love how you used "banshee rant" to describe her actions. Classic!!
My Mother used to always call us House devils School Angels!
Oh you poor dear, congrats to Sassy though!
As long as she won't be graded on her kitchen-cleaning skills...
At least you taught her to behave and I admit to a bit of banshee behavior myself from time to time.
So did her mother clean the kitchen in the end, or just have a beer out in the garden to cool down?
I think it's called karma ...
That's a good one, Moms know the truth!
Funny how kids can be so good and praised by strangers, but can be so mean to their parents at times. I think that my Mom could tell you some stories.
one day when she is rich and famous you can write the behind the scenes exclusive and it will pay for someone to clean for you..lol.
Isn't there a saying that goes:
"Street angel, house devil?"
Peace ~ Rene
Mo- She cleaned it alright - but I paid a dear price for it.
Ah, what joy, adventure and razor sharp reflexes teen girls bring into our lives.
I once burst out laughing at a sports banquet when my son recieved an award for Hardest Worker. I always said I should buy dishes shaped like soccer balls.
Oh, yeah! Good thing they don't need references from siblings for college!
The pigtails and mudball incidnet was 3 weeks ago, wasn't it?
Gives Sassy a congratulatory side-kick in the britches.
Di
The Blue Ridge Gal
Ha! Public faces and private faces. Love it.
Congrats to Sassy! Now I'm trying to translate Smith and Wesson into something else and I think I got it.
Congrats to Sassy! So VM, you're telling me that the scene in my kitchen this week {because it was Girl Child's week to clean and she hadn't yet...after being told TWICE} is only going to get worse?!?!?!?! I have only one girl child and now I'm terrified! Of course she may not make it to 13 and a day the way she's going.
When I read these posts I feel relief. So many of my friends have perfect children and make me feel like I've fucked up. I mean, I HAVE fucked up, but they've got some nerve reminding me.
Great news for Sassy!
Amazing how sweet they are in public...but we moms know the truth. Someday they might have kids of their own and then they'll get it!
So is Smith and Wesson out of town? And how far? Having sent two smelly caveman boys to college I've found that 90 miles is the optimum distance for the parent/child relation.
We all have two sides to us don't we....
I think maybe college admissions staff SHOULD ask the interviewees to clean the kitchen. It would give them a truer picture of what they were getting, wouldn't it?
But then none of our kids would ever go to college.
That... that is why I am dreading the teenaged years. Terrible twos are bad but that... that is just frightening.
I have no kids, so I cant relate, and I was a perfect teenager...lmao;)
got to be good lookin' cause he's so hard to see...
Sounds like our teacher/parent conference for the Wonderboy.
"He's quiet? Are you sure you're talking about OUR kid?!?!"
At home I can ask one of my 3 to do something like load the dishwasher and I hear "I did it last time" "(insert sibling name) never does it" and my personal favorite "I already put MY dishes in." But daughter number 1 spends a week with her boyfriend's family and all I hear is how helpful she is- setting the table, slicing vegetables, entertaining the nieces and nephews. I expected to hear she had plowed the back 40 after she chopped wood. This is the same 20 year old who will call me from home while I'm sitting in a faculty meetin at 5 f----ing o'clock and ask what I'm cooking for dinner.
I'm glad mine isn't the only kid who's only well-behaved when there are witnesses...
Well-raised children return to what they've learned. You should give yourself kudos.
Last night I told my daughter that she has all the mannerisms of an operatic diva, so it was time to start working on her voice.
::snirk::
my mom always used to get exasperated with my 'good behaviour' in public and she once asked me why I always "banshee-ranted" at home and yet so nice in public. I gave her a look and said, "I don't want other people to know how badly I've been brought up"!!
Oh dear... Sassy in college, though... That's a benefit, eh?
Couldn't have said that one better myself!
Yup, been there. Sometimes I wonder if the "world" is seeing the same children I raised. An elementary school teacher once told me, though, that if my chicas know how to behave in public, then I've won the battle. Fingers crossed...
(read this with a whine)
M o m.......Gosh. . .
Well said! Reminds me of myself at that age. Oh boy.
I see she's maturing and learning to adapt.
Where does she get it?
That is awesome that she had a good interview. Girls that age are so difficult! It will be better soon! I screamed and cried a ton in high school and am now best friends with my parents.
EEEEk! I can relate, you know I can, and my banshee is 8!!
LOL! I hope that doing the dishes isn't in the job discription.
You always give me so much to look forward to with my charming (to everyone else) three year old daughter...
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