Examples of the lack of common sense that my (extremely bright - at least that's what they tell me!) darling 13 year old son has exhibited in the last 24 hours:
-Yesterday, I sent him out back to shovel off our patio. Its about a 15 x 15 foot slab connected to the house. For some reason, he decided it was a good idea to just PUSH all the snow up against our house!
When I asked him why he didn't shovel it AWAY from the house (into the yard), he replied "Well, where was I supposed to put it when I was shoveling THIS way?"
Needless to say, he then got to reshovel the mountains of snow a good distance away. Incidentally we got about 9 inches, not too bad!
-I haven't been here much because we've been working on Christmas cards, newsletters, etc. Today I asked him to help me stamp them. I gave him a book of (peel and stick) Christmas stamps and a stack of cards. He asked if he has to lick the stamps. I told him "not if you want them to stick!". About 5 minutes later (okay, I wasn't providing proper supervision
), he asks "Are you SURE I have to lick these stamps?"
Yes, he was licking the pre-stuck stamps and for some reason they weren't sticking that well!
-Then as he was going through the cards, he kept giggling and making fun of people's names, street names, cities, etc. He got to one that had a PO Box and asked "Who lives in a PO box? Why would their address be a PO Box?" I pointed out that they probably didn't live in one, but had their mail delivered to one. He asked totally seriously, "Really? How does a PO Box work anyways?"
Guess we just don't realize how much we take for granted that still new and confusing to the young-uns!
Okay, off to take kids to Religious Ed, and then work on getting bindings on snowboards so we can take the girlfriends snowboarding and/or skiing this weekend. Catch you all later!