The local radio station just announced that "ladies cards at the Elk's Lodge" has been cancelled today due to the cold. Now, when you start cancelling card clubs in Iowa, you KNOW its gotta be real #@^#%@$#^@ cold outside! On the flip side, my too cool for hat and mittens teenager just headed up to the bus stop in a light fleece jacket, wet hair, and his hands in his front pockets. If he were younger, the school would be calling me to let me know what a deadbeat parent I must be for not dressing my little darling for this frigid, freeze-your-boogers-in-place winter weather. But some biological shift must happen between about 5th and 6th grade. Fifth graders still wear hat and mittens (they've already shed the uncool Ralphy snowpants/boots thing), but not those very, very cool 7th and 8th graders. They must let that hair flow free, uninhibited by bulky dime store polyester blends in raucous colors. No! They must let that neck be free and feel the wind (windchill today -15) not to be choked in a oh-so-old-school scarf of multi colors, and show that new shirt with the cool logo on it, hey, it might look good with frostbite just above the collar. But we love 'em! We love them, and we send them to school with a kiss and hug and a full belly (on the good days, Carnation Instant Breakfast on others), and we know they will weather this storm called teen years, we all did. Not gracefully, but we did it.
6 comments:
I know those boys. They don't even have any fat on their frames. How do they do that when I am suffering from the frost? The days are getting longer, and there's a lot of love in your home to keep you warm. Soldier on, carrying forward the cheesecake for comfort!
My girls too. They don't want to look "weird" wearing warm clothing on frigid days. Someone might think they were thinking like a PARENT for god's sake and that would just totally ruin their social life.
Much easier to read, thank you!
They've got to look as cool as possible because let's face it, 14 isn't a pretty age on anyone. Let's all post our 8th grade pictures. :o)
I'm not sure I even have any 8th grade photos around anymore! I'll look though!
Slap a pair of black horn rimmed glasses on that kid on the right and that's me in the 1960's.
I like the new look of your blog.
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