One day,I'm going to write a book about the adventures and misadventures of my 15yr old son. Our family recently went to Disneyland. All the kids had to work for half of the money of the Disneyland ticket(which,incidentally is the same price as buying a small country).
Our oldest son has a job,the youngest kids created a candy store and made a killing! Steve was busy skateboarding or playing his guitar and informed us that 'Disneyland was LAME' duh... of course,the happiest place on earth is lame.He seemed a little miffed that Mom really meant it about the whole 'earning your own way' stuff,when we left that morning.
As we hugged him goodbye we pointed to the legal size document tacked to the wall,and reminded him that the ER is on speed dial. Now,you should know that we don't usually publish manifestos before leaving our children in the care of grandparents and older sister,but Steve is .. well... Steve lol.
This is a copy of the note we left him,
Dear son,
In light of recent activities including the dumb list,the following is a list of things that you can not participate in nor can you encourage,coerce or bribe anyone else to do stated things for you.
1. ANYTHING on the dumb list
2.You may not cause any explosions or play with fire
3.You not go on any roof with or without a skateboard or wheelchair
4. The neighbors are not here for your entertainment
5.You may not play pranks on the new bishop
6. The old bishop knows all of your pranks and besides,Dallas is home now and hes bigger than you.
7. There shall be no activities involving bowling balls,duct tape,icy hot,shaving cream or hair color
8. Yes,i know, we are mean :) We love you,have fun with Zach,listen to Sister Simmons,be respectful to Jenny and only call us if you are in the ER and it doesn't involve any of the above things.
-MOM
It should be noted that we had been gone less than 12 hours when Jenny called us to inform us that Steve and friends were on our roof(which part didn't they understand?/!!??) Other than the roof incident he only managed a sprained ankle in the entire five days we were gone-that we know about.(we subscribe to the 'don't ask don't tell' philosophy)
This morning DH found the latest copy of the dumb list*sigh*. I'm publishing this in hopes that my neighbors will still love me once summer is here.. you have all been warned :)
1.Fill pool with jello
2. human torch
3.icy hot-not me
4.duct tape josh to the wall
5.bird release
6.dominoes (illegible)
7.diet coke, mentos explosion
8.smash and guitar hero guitar
9.slay the dragon
10.snort pop rocks
11.light wheels of skateboard on fire
12.Air soft firing(illegible)
This is a kid that makes me laugh when no one else can and who gives the best hugs in the entire world.His friends call me mom, hang out at my house,eat all my food,and generally make me remember that life is fun. He would help anyone out,is the president of the teachers quorum and passes the sacrament every Sunday-in his beloved black Converse sneakers.
For all his quirky ways i wouldn't trade him for the world,but sometimes id lend him out for a couple of Tylenol and a diet coke :)
1 comment:
LOL!! Thanks for finally updating. That was rich! :-)
He seemed a bit miffed when you left without him, did he? LOL
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