Reflection of a Middle-Aged Mother: Excitement

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Excitement

I can barely contain myself. I put my exchange student on the plane today. I don't think you can understand the relief I feel. It wasn't a horrible experience, but it left a lot to be desired. Just one more kid to cart around and one more mouth to feed. And like all kids they are great at consuming but they really suck at replenishing. He wasn't a defiant kid or even rude, but he was an 18 year old male, the only things he thought about were girls and cars.
I am looking forward to school being out. This week I have two baseball games. I am instructing for three days at the tennis club. We still have soccer. And I also have scouts. Next week we have a zoo trip, eighth grade graduation, the end of the year carnival and four more baseball games.
Oh how I am looking forward to warm weather and sleeping in. I am tired of fighting the bed-time thing, since my kids are still in school and the rest of the neighborhood is out and can stay up later.
Woo-hoo schedules to the wind and no more HOMEWORK!

2 comments:

Jen said...: ah yes....summer vacation. When the kids are always bored and the fighting never ends...but at least you get to sleep in and not fight them about going to bed on time, thus increasing the time to hear them whine and complain! Yahoo for summer! NOT!; June 3, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Unknown said...: So - I hadn't seen this post when I wrote you that email. Did anyone in your family get emotional when he left? What are you doing for the Carnival? I am totally slacking this one off!; June 3, 2008 at 11:01 PM

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Kids Say The Darndest Things

BRADY - "I'm kinda glad Tyler still remembers how to speak American." 10-10-11
On our way to Vegas we stopped and had lunch with Brooke because Syd insisted. She said, "Mom I need a serious dose of sarcasm right now."
Syd was talking about a date her friends were setting her up on. Brady was sitting with us and he says, " I don't know why you would want to go on a date with a blind guy." We both looked at each other and started laughing. We realized when she talked about a "blind date" he thought we literally meant he was blind.
I have a friend named Brooke. My girls adore her. She is funny, witty, and as sarcastic as they come. Sydney said to me the other day. "Mom, I need a Brooke of my own. I hope that when I get older I will find me a Brooke."
So Brady was having a conversation with his friend on the way home from school and he says, "do you know what an exchange student is"? Gage says, "No". Well it's like when your brother goes to college or something and you get someone from another country to come live at your house".
Brady and Andrew were driving down the road and he says to Drew, "It would be fun to be a fireman because you could bring marshmallows and chocolate and stuff and for the first minute you could make smores and then you could put out the fire."
We are on our way to lunch on the last day of school and Landon says, "we all got award's today". I reply, "oh really, what did you get one for?" So he preceeds for read it to me. "The ornery award for critical thinker. I start to laugh and say, oh boy Mrs. Shenton sure knows you if she gave you the ornery award." Then I look at the paper and it says, honarary award for most "critical thinker". I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.
We were discussing a family in the ward that blessed their baby today, and we were saying that the baby had a name that all three names ended in "un" sound. I told the kids I tried really hard not to give them names that all three had the same ending. Such as...Conner Ryder Porter. Brady then says, "I'm going to try real hard not to name my kids nu, nu, nun.

Favorite Quotes

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
"Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing." Dr. Phil
"You wouldn't worry so much about what people think about you, if you knew how seldom they did." Dr. Phil
"Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair. You can do it all day, but it won't get you anywhere."
"My friend is one... who takes me for what I am."
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's learning to dance in the rain."
"Live while you are alive. Life is too short for drama & petty things, so laugh hard, love truly and forgive quickly. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second chance. Lost time can never again be found."
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."