Moments with My Teenager

Let me start by saying, my teenage son,
who's just weeks away from turning 16-years-old,
has been a responsible, trustworthy and pretty laid back teen.
(even when I mess with him)

However, there are occasionally moments.
Moments where he goes spacey ... or gets moody.


In the photo above, he's about to go into his bass lesson,
and he clearly has the moody bit going on.
I don't remember why.
Actually, there didn't need to be a reason.
He just was. Moody.

As for the spacey moments, here's the most recent example:

Monday, he left out chocolate (milk chocolate and caramel kisses. WRAPPED in foil),
which the dog promptly ate while we were gone, foil and all.

The same day, my teenager also almost started a fire in the toaster.

 I'm banning him from food.
All food.


 P.S. the dog is okay, thank god. (Chocolate is toxic to dogs, just in case you didn't know)

P.P.S I just scheduled his driving test at the DPS for his birth day.
(I may need to be medicated for that.)



 

Texts Without Context

My 15-year-old just texted me "metamorphosis frans kafkat."

Out of the blue.
No other context.

I'll admit, I had to Google it ... and it led me to think
that maybe he needs me to buy him The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka?

Or is this a new teen text strategy to confuse parents?

Want to read another funny mother-son texting story?




 

Teen Reading Material

For the last two weeks, this has been my teen son's reading material:





It looks remarkably similar to my reading material 20 years ago.


And last week, we went and stood in line at the TX DPS for 3 1/2 hours
to get his learner's permit.





3 1/2 hours!!

We'd been warned it could take 3-5 hours.

I think he would have slept over night in that line if he'd had to.