A taste of my own medicine.. (me!) WriteousMom
my reputation is well known.. not writeousmom, not fun & exciting mom, not way cool mom..
-boring mom. because how many times did my children want to do something interesting/exciting/adventurous..
but i forced them to do something educational/cultural..
"not again mom.. come on.. we'll be the only teenagers! its gonna be all old people and us.."
"No.. This is for whole families! I promise! It'll be really fun, you'll see.."
-and of course.. they were the only teenagers. it was only interesting for me, and they did nothing but wait for it to come to end..
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meanwhile their dad is taking them and all their friends on boat rides, tubing, knee-boarding...
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so anyway.. the colleges have created a clever way to wean the parents away from their beloved children, and the opportunities were as follows:
a brew crawl to visit the local pubs in the area. ("I love handcrafted beers!").
a wine stroll to do tastings at the local wineries ("I love going wine tasting!)
-horseback riding along the coast. (I love the coast!)
But as it turns out.. -something to do with either
1. signing up too late, or
2. children's revenge
I did not visit the breweries, or the wineries, or see the coast.
; no..
I was instead on the library/cultural tour. envisioning all the other parents drinking beer, or tasting wine.. galloping along the gorgeous coastline..
while I was staring at historically significant items attached to a board, labeled and framed.
I could literally hear my children's voices.. with hints of gratification and whispers of sarcasm..
'having fun mom?'.
-telepathically I whispered back, 'ok we're even'
and telepathically i heard them say, 'even?! -do you know how many of these things you dragged us too... we have only just begun.'
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and in truth.. i really did love the tour.
I mean, I would have loved it even more if say, -they combined the beer/wine tasting along with the visit to the library.. But still
posted by SHE @ 9:21 AM
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