i wanna be cool

so i decided i wanted to be a cool mom when i was entering the world of having teenagers. not so cool that i dress like a teenager or act like a teenager but just a mom thats cool. i won't be cool and take my kids toilet papering. jess thinks these moms are just the coolest but i guess i will never be that cool. probably because i know that the mom and dad are the ones that have to do most of the cleaning up. i know this because rick and i just had to clean up soggy wet toilet paper in our yard. i want the kids to come hang out at our house and feel welcome and comfortable. i also decided that i want to be really nice to the girls that brendan brings around. and really nice to that girl that someday will be his girlfriend. too many moms were not that nice to me and i was always scared to death of them.

the other day he told me he was liking a certain girl. wow. he told me that. a day later i asked him a really silly question like," so are you guys like together?" he told me no, because she wasn't sure she liked him and she was trying to decide between him and another guy. this is what was going through my mind.

WHAT???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? SHE HAS TO DECIDE IF SHE LIKES HIM???? SHE MIGHT LIKE SOMEONE ELSE INSTEAD??? SHE MIGHT NOT LIKE THE MOST HANDSOME, HARD WORKING, ATHLETIC 15 YEAR OLD WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR OUT THERE????? WE ARE GOING TO KICK THIS GIRL TO THE CURB AND FORGET ABOUT HER!!!

that is what i think. so maybe i will be kinda cool but this business about being nice to the girls that are going to come around is going to be a lot harder than i thought. just sayin.

a good night

last night was a good night. no one had anywhere to go and everyone was home. i wanted to take a picture of our night but of course my camera battery was dead. we had just finished dinner. i was in the kitchen with all 5 kiddos. i was making a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich for rick because the leftover soup we had just didn't "fill him up", normally i would have been annoyed to make something else but for some reason i didn't mind. so there we were in the kitchen. jess was making chocolate chip cookies and for some reason it was taking her a really long time to make the dough, evan was standing on the bar stool waiting patiently for jess to finish the dough so he could lick the beater, ruby was playing peek-a-boo with herself and the aprons hanging up, brendan was practicing his oral presentation on a supernova remnant cassiopeia A for science and lily was trying to eat all of the bacon for my sandwich. basicallly all 5 children were making some kind of noise. this usually drives me crazy but it didn't. brendan finished his report by saying, "this concludes my presentation." and then says in a very enthused peppy voice (which is so not usual)"vote for summer!" which is a line from the one and only napoleon dynamite. it was so funny it made me laugh out loud. i know it was a moment that you had to be there, but it made me laugh, a good belly laugh and when all those kids saw their mom laugh it made them all laugh, just as hard as me. it was a good night. and that oral presentation was ridiculously boring.