Sending Your Kids to the Lions Den

Posted on 05 Nov 2011

Sending Your Kids to the Lions Den

My last post was about my son being robbed and assaulted on his way home from school.  Since that post the kid who assaulted him has plead guilty to felony robbery and will be sentenced next week.  In the mean time he was placed in an alternative school but is still out running around doing [...]


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It’s Official – I’m Old AND Senile

Posted on18 Mar 2010

You know, my kids keep telling me I’m old but I choose not to believe them.  They’re just little punks, they don’t know anything.  When I was 10, 25 was over the hill -  when I was 15, 30 was freakin ancient – you had one foot in the grave.  Now that I’m 29 for the 14th year in a row 50 year olds seem like babies – funny how perception changes.  But, after this week I  can  no longer deny that age is sucking up my brain cells at a  terrifying rate of speed.

You know you are getting old when:

-  You go to the drive through at the bank and leave with the tube for the money(oops!)

-  You stand outside your front door trying to unlock it by pushing the button to unlock your car doors (and not just once or twice)

-  You take your kid to school and realize as soon as you get home  that her drawers are in still in the dryer (yes I ran right back up to the school to straighten her out – poor kid)

-   Husbands out  of town so  you send him some naughty emails – when he tells you he didn’t get them you realize you sent them to the wrong email address(sorry mom)

- You stick your daughters pink boa she wants to take in for show and tell in her big brothers book bag (he’s damaged for life)

- Every morning you sit at the red light down the street and look at the tree sticking it’s tongue out at you but today you stick your tongue out at the tree.  (even the trees are mocking me)

There’s no hope – age has got hold of me and turned me into a crazy old woman.  The upside, I seem to be making people happy, because they just can’t stop laughing.

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  • Grace

    And part of the problem is forgetting how to spell or was that intended? that said, I love your blog and have promoted it from google reader status to Blog to Read bookmark folder so I don’t forget to check it every day – yeah, being over 50, we sometimes forget even the good stuff

  • sheila

    Grace – it was totally unintentional – but just further proof that old age is setting in.

  • http://alterityart.blogspot.com Lisa – Alterity

    Yup…seems we are on the same level, only the tree at the red light down the road isn’t sticking it’s tongue out!

  • http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com ann

    I’m getting closer to 50 but I can’t say that I have done any of the things on your list. BUT, I can see myself doing the last one.

  • http://cuteasabuggy.blogspot.com Buggys

    Oh Lord…I have a list as long as my arm, I know exactly what you’re saying. Last night I was getting ready for bed, teeth brushed, face scrubbed, creams applied, hair taken down….I just stood there. My husband gave me a wth are you doing look. I meant to do something, I think it was important – ish but it flew out of my head. I couldn’t shake that feeling but couldn’t retrieve the thought either!

  • http://www.ezgreatlife.com John@Family, Fitness and Finances

    I feel your pain. I have driven off with the money tube a couple of times. Good grief, I can’t believe I just admitted that! :) I will get up and go into another room to get something and when I get there, I can’t remember what I am looking for.

    It doesn’t stop with the mind. I was working on the flooring in my bathroom last weekend. I had to go buy knee pads. I’ve NEVER needed knee pads before. Getting old is not for sissies…

  • http://parentimes.com Denesa

    Me too. I keep mixing up the names of my kids. When I go to the supermarket, I cannot remember what I want to buy unless I write it down on paper. A funny joke is that sometimes I am holding the items that I am looking for and yet I am still calling out for whole family to help look out for it. It is also amazing how I keep going to the wrong room in the house…

    Age is really catching up …it is undeniable.

  • sheila

    Lisa – What IS the tree doing?

    Ann – Maybe you just can’t remember doing the things on my list, lol

    Buggys – Did you ever figure out what it is?

    John – At least I’m not alone – I don’t feel quite so bad know there are a bunch of crazy old people running around everywhere

    Denesa – Just blame your kids

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