Apr 20
things I really hope my daughter won’t copy me on.
You guys, I am now officially the parent of a teenager. Lindsey turned 13 yesterday in an absolutely perfect display of how you want your child’s birthday to go. Her friends baked her a cake and brought it to school, and it was decorated with a big ol’ photo of Blake Lewis, and she had flowers delivered to school, and her sister cooked her a small dinner, and she loved all her presents and when I put her to bed (yes, I still do that…what?) she hugged me tight and said “Mom, this was my best birthday ever. Thank you.” It was pretty fabulous, and definitely one of those days you tuck away in the memory bank, when you have a daughter, or any teen, I suppose.
I can remember being 13, can’t you? I turned 13 in 1984, a few days before 8th grade started, and some key things happened that year that I…really hope my daughter doesn’t do when she is 13. For example:
- I started off the year winning a “panty contest”. (oh my god, I just remembered that, by the way…I’ll have to tell you about that one)
- I had my first kiss
- I…oh wait, I’ll skip that.
- I got drunk for the first time. On a cruise ship, with my parents. (With my parents THERE, not “with my parents”, they had NO idea. Or…wait…mom? When you gave me that dramamine for seasickness, you TOTALLY smelled the rum punch, didn’t you?)
- Totally under the spell of the 15-year-old very bad girl I was hanging out with on the same cruise, I snorted crank! I did! And then I spent the next 22 years thinking “crank is not bad” because that’s what Kina, the bad girl, told me, and it wasn’t until just LAST YEAR that I googled “crank” and found out…you guys! CRANK IS BAD! Very bad! Kina was a liar!
Anyway, you get the point. Which is: holy crap, I hope I don’t read Lindsey’s blog in 23 years and see a list similar to mine. Excuse me for a moment while I go lock her in her room.
Tschuss!!
April 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
MISSY, a cruise that comes up in your mother and mine conversation quite often…But LOCK her up…
luv ya
April 20th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Um…I don’t remember 13-16. Oh..wait maybe I choose not too? But do not let your 15 year olds travel with weird history teacher and their spouse on EF trips either…as they don’t babysit very well. Hey kids..You’re not old enough to travel on your own until you’re in COLLEGE..and even then your poor judgment is yours alone to live with..lol. Cheers for surviving The Teens!
April 20th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Dad - you probably don’t even remember the cruise.
Megan - Okay, so…are you saying you went on a trip with the Voyles? What is this weird parallel life you led? B-52 concerts with the still un-named you know who, EF (EF? WHAT IS EF?) trips with Mr. Voyles? Did we have another history teacher? EVERY COMMENT YOU LEAVE CONFUSES ME!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
God..are you online? Lol! Nooo.. B52s was with MissD and Mr. Olson was the history teacher I was referrring to. What school did you go to??? (EF = Education Foundation or something like that…)
April 20th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Megan - ohhhhhh…that’s RIGHT, not the voyles, it was totally Frank and Mattie Olsen! I totally got them mixed up, and now the EF reference is so clear! I remember them taking you smart kids on trips all the time…no longer confused. Fabulous!
April 21st, 2007 at 7:35 am
You were cranking and cruising at fifteen?
Don’t tell your daughter that…
April 21st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Scott - No. Even worse, I was only 13.
April 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Remember the panty contest - ha! You deserved to win. Just one question, though, does #3 have anything to do with the King boys? I know some of the things I’d rather forget started there…..
I’m resigned to the fact that at least one of my daughters will do some of the stupid things I did. At least we all survived, though, huh?
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:24 am
Well, most kids are rebellious, so maybe they won’t follow you but instead be super religious…and uptight…which is not fun.
Maybe they will just shrug and just not go that way. Who knows..
A panty contest? that sounds like fun…
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:16 am
Kari - see, I LOVE having you guys to remember this stuff with me. #3 - not a King, it was Derek Shaffer. But yes, so many things to forget with those King twins…man.
Sir Jorge - Ha ha ha! If my kids turned out super religious…well, at least they could pray for me to ease the pain of Eternal Hellfire. The panty contest? Fun while it lasted…until we got busted by the gym teacher. Then, not so much.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Oh sweet Jesus. I have a #3 w/ one of the King boys.. and every time I hear AC/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’, I’m taken right back there.. drunk make-out after throwing up, room still spinning. Nasty. Thank you, Kari for the reminder.. and omg, Treens, you and Megan crack me up! And oh how I remember all the concerts she and I went to.. but we were always VERY well behaved. And that’s no lie. Ahh memories. Now it’s the sneaking out I did some time AFTER that you don’t want to tell your kids about. Also, I have to send Blake this link. He’s gonna die.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
OMG! Derek Shaffer - yup, you weren’t the only one. Been there, done that, too. He was so irresistible! Hmm, I’m really frightened of all the other things you guys might dredge up for me…
May 1st, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Angel - I think all Lincoln City girls our age have a #3 w/ the King boys. Which is very, very gross, if you think about it.
Kari - He totally was! I know! Remember he had the car, that he couldn’t even drive! Because we were only 13! Oh, honey, there is going to be some dredging going on soon. I’m totally bringing my diary.