My Corner of the World

If you are not blessed with a teenager in your home yet, just wait. Your time will come. Probably every parent wonders at some point what they did to deserve a teenager who thinks he knows everything. In my case, I know I deserve it. I was a teenager with a very strong sense of justice who would come out and present a whole defense argument for every little issue that came up between my parents and my siblings that, I know now, was pretty much none of my business. I was the in-home & self-appointed public defender. I can see why my parents always said that I'd make a good lawyer. And I realize now that I must've been pretty irritating....but I still believe I had the best of intentions. My solution for handling a know-it-all teenager? Nothing, absolutely nothing. I don't take the bait because I know I can't win. There's nothing you can respond with that will garner this response that you would really like to hear, something like: "Wow, tThat's a rea...

The title of this post just makes me laugh and laugh to myself. Awkward Confession #1: I wear earplugs during my kids' band concerts. It only gets embarrassing when the other parents try to start up conversations with me and I have to go, "huh?" and lean awkwardly toward them like I have age-related hearing loss. I usually have to pull out the ear plug in order to have a conversation because the noise in the high school negates the possibility of having a normal conversation even without having plugs stuffed in my ears. And then they say something like, "Oh, what a good idea!" all while looking at me like I'm really weird because I'm missing out on something really good. Believe me, I was in band too, and I don't even think the students would take offense. They know they don't sound good. I know I would've gladly plugged my own ears when I was in Band. We have a band concert to attend tonight. Luckily (?) for me, I have the excuse of goin...