Teenagers

The last couple of days have been a little stressful and chaotic, thanks to my 13 year old son.  I remember my daughter being a little scattered at that age, but I may not survive the boy.

Monday was to be his first baseball game of the season.  However, he had a band concert that he was required to attend on Monday.  So, on the previous Friday, he told the coach that he wouldn’t be playing Monday.  The coach was cool with that…all taken care of right?

On Monday, he rides over with the team to the game.  That, in and of itself, is no big deal because he has some time before he had to be at the concert.  But, this is where things went awry.  HE SUITED UP TO PLAY!  I really am not sure what he was thinking, but yes, he suited up and fully expected to play the second game that would start around 6:00/6:30.  I’m not sure how he had planned to be in two places at once, but nonetheless, he was ready to play.

My husband goes to pick him up…they have to interrupt the coach during the game to make sure he knows the boy won’t be there to play.  After he tells the coach that he’s leaving, the boy discovers he can’t get into the locker room.  No big deal…the husband will go back and wait until the game is over to get the stuff out of the locker room.  Well, now wait a minute….the music and drum sticks needed for the concert the boy has to be at in 45 minutes are locked IN THE LOCKER ROOM!    Really?

Again, the coach was interrupted for a locker room key.  Not a good way to start the season.  -_-

On Tuesday, I get up and go to work as usual.  I pull into my parking spot, turn off the car, turn to grab my purse, and I see something out of place in the back seat.  What could it be?  OH, it’s my son’s binder for school!!!!!!!  CRAP!

So, as I’m starting the car and backing out, I’m on the phone leaving a message for my boss that I have to drive 30 minutes home and 30 minutes back to deliver a school binder.  During the drive home, I’m talking to the boy…are you up?  Is your sister up?  Yes, we’re up, is the response I get.

I walk in the door at 7:25 AND THEY ARE BOTH IN BED!!!!!  Considering the boy has to leave in 5 minutes and the sister’s school starts at 8:00, this is a real problem.  So...I start yelling.  Then, the sister starts yelling to tell me to stop yelling.  Thinking that I was just going to run in with the binder and leave, I had left the garage door open.  I’m sure our neighbors think we are just something else!

Just typing this blog has increased my heart rate tremendously.

If I survive my son, it will be the biggest accomplishment of my life.

Baseball Season

It's been a while since my last post, but it's springtime! Baseball season is upon us. My son has started his little league games. They are not doing too well, with wins, right now, but it'll come together. All the players on the team are pretty good, I just think many of them get frustrated and sort of panic on the field. The Yankees have started too. I'm not sure what to say about them yet. They are 5-5 at this point and they start the Red Sox series tonight. We'll see how that goes.

I'll be getting my daughter signed up for softball this month. This is the last year she can play in "little league". It's more of a Jr. league, because she's 14, but next year she'll be playing with the school.

The next cake decorating class starts next week. I haven't decided if I'm going to take it or not, yet. I probably will, but it's just so busy right now. The last month of school always seems to be crazy!

Baseball Cookies

With baseball season upon us, I wanted to try my hand at making baseball cookies. A few of them turned out pretty good, but most of them were pretty rough. I was surprised to find that the stitching was not the hard part. The hard part was getting the white icing to stay and look smooth. I tried to get the edges of the icing to look round, and when that didn't work I tried just going over the side of the cookie. That didn't work too well either, so I will have to do some research to see if there is a trick to icing a cookie.

They were fun to make, so I'll have to practice. From my previous post, you know that I am taking a cake decorating classes. Hopefully, that will help and I'll become better at winging it on things like baseball cookies.