This weekend was a fairly good one. C and I put up the Christmas tree and T helped me put up the Christmas lights. C had a friend over to play and T helped me peel and slice apples for an apple pie I'm baking. I got back to work on Monday (ugh!) and I thought I would bake an apple pie for my co-workers. I hope it turned out ok. Maybe I should cut a slice to make sure it is, but then it will look so lame with a slice taken out.
T and I had a very nice moment peeling and slicing apples together. It's kinda like the time when T was like 9 years old and I taught him how to make salsa and he helped me chop up all the tomatoes, onions, and chili peppers. He insisted on wearing goggles when he chopped up the onions...it was a nice bonding moment.
I'm so glad that our agency will be closed for two weeks during Christmas and New Years.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
I decided to start writing down these ideas I have so that someday I can look back and remember, "What I was thinking!"
I have a pretty complicated life and I wonder when is it going to get better? I'm a happily divorced single mom of two boys who mean the world to me, but yet the challenges I face raising teenage boys have really taken it's toll on me.
My eldest son is 14 yrs. old and I can't wait for the day when the light bulb turns on in his head. This week, I've been on vacation from my job and have been home. Yesterday, my eldest son T didn't come home from school until like 7:30pm! He wasn't answering his cell either, which I called like 15x! I was going crazy with worry. I called his friend Marcos whom I got his number for T's MySpace page (T always changes his password, but I always figure it out...he's not very good at it.) Marcos was not very forthcoming with any information. Finally, I called the police and just as they arrived, T came home...stoned! I knew that when T left for school in the morning, he had something peculiar in this folded up piece of paper he was holding very carefully. He wouldn't let me see it either.
As a mom who has gone through the pot smoking stage as a teenager, I know that it really isn't as bad as most people make it out to be, but the difference is if the individual has a bit of the obsessive/addictive personality element in them, then it absolutely can become a big problem. I think T may think it's a bit of a cool factor when you can tell people that you've been an addict and now you're clean. However, he's not pass the addict thing yet.
I have a pretty complicated life and I wonder when is it going to get better? I'm a happily divorced single mom of two boys who mean the world to me, but yet the challenges I face raising teenage boys have really taken it's toll on me.
My eldest son is 14 yrs. old and I can't wait for the day when the light bulb turns on in his head. This week, I've been on vacation from my job and have been home. Yesterday, my eldest son T didn't come home from school until like 7:30pm! He wasn't answering his cell either, which I called like 15x! I was going crazy with worry. I called his friend Marcos whom I got his number for T's MySpace page (T always changes his password, but I always figure it out...he's not very good at it.) Marcos was not very forthcoming with any information. Finally, I called the police and just as they arrived, T came home...stoned! I knew that when T left for school in the morning, he had something peculiar in this folded up piece of paper he was holding very carefully. He wouldn't let me see it either.
As a mom who has gone through the pot smoking stage as a teenager, I know that it really isn't as bad as most people make it out to be, but the difference is if the individual has a bit of the obsessive/addictive personality element in them, then it absolutely can become a big problem. I think T may think it's a bit of a cool factor when you can tell people that you've been an addict and now you're clean. However, he's not pass the addict thing yet.
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