| charmed, did you mean my son? Not sure as my first post noted: "He graduated at age 13" (so I wouldn't think people would read it and think he was twelve).
In any case, he is 16 now.
And alh, overall, I feel our son is a lot of fun (not just to me, but people in general; I noticed early in his life that people looking at him in the background of photos just listening to him speaking to others were smiling, and he does get invited to a lot of things such that he often can't make lots of things that he'd like to, like he has a grad student or faculty BBQ invitation and a teen party invitation for tomorrow and will likely just do one rather than try to juggle them as they are being held in far apart locations) and being his mom has certainly been a surreal, exciting adventure. I think my being his mother has been the same for him, though, as I'm a pretty wild person who likes to do a lot of different things and so he's had experiences he wouldn't have likely had if he hadn't happened to just have me as one of his parents. And I have also raised him to do some mundane things to just help out, like as a kid, I brought him along with me when I volunteered to pack gift bags for artisans of a town arts festival and to stuff envelopes for a community newsletter and so tonight, he asked me if I would rather attend a debate competition in memory of a guy he knows from debate team who died a year ago or stuff envelopes for an organization he is active in (rather than hide that the organization could use help stuffing envelopes and just attend the debate they wanted to attend, as I suspect some teens would) as both start at the same time, and I figure we'll go to the debate and then the place where the envelope stuffing is taking place as odds are that will last longer than the debate and it would be nice to honor the deceased debate team member. For some things, at least, I think my being his parent has worked out okay. |