TEENAGERS !!!
Who has stolen my son ?
or has the son I knew had a
FRONTAL LOBOTOMY ???
Joe has changed.
I now have a very tall gangly
all arms & legs
(which he doesn't know what to do with)
deep voiced
slightly spotty
young man !!!
He hangs on the open fridge door looking inside vacantly.
I do wonder what he's hoping to find in there.
Chocolate probably.
He asks over & over
" where's the ..."
To which I reply exhasperated,
"I don't know Joe-
LOOK FOR IT !"
On holiday he asked where the apple juice was
so I told him it was at the top of the mast
& someone on a boat nearby giggled.
On Sunday we dragged him out for a walk & baguette.
He stood watching a cormorant dive over & over in the harbour water
and asked what it was getting.
I answered,
" Cheese & pickle sandwiches "
Sixteen in two weeks.
He has lost the power of speech
apart from "er" or "huh"
Our plumber told me that his son is working with him now
that the Aliens have returned him
I SO know what he means !
When I ask Joe to do something he says,
" in a minute"
If he says it once more once more...
AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
He says
" WOT "
when you call him.
I never had this with Jess
apart from the
" in a minute" thing
Jess plays music loudly in her car
with a little attachment for her ipod.
I love the line from
My Chemical Romance's track
Teenagers-
" Teenagers scare the living s!*! outta me !"
Though I have asked her to download
Lana Del Ray
Katie Perri &
Christina Perry
too !
I'm having a few Blogger problems.
It seems to be going through changes.
Perhaps it is adolescence too
or the dreaded Menopause like me
& having hot flushes
( I didn't notice them in Antigua where I was hot ALL the time ! )
I can't always leave a comment.
Also I'm adding the list of Blogs I follow to my sidebar
& not just in my profile
it's slow & laborious
but will be easier to click once there.
I have been catching up with your Blogs
but not always able to comment...
so frustrating-
JUST LIKE A TEENAGER !!!
Snap - big son is 16 in 4 weeks time. All arms & legs like a baby giraffe but with the appetite of a baby elephant!
ReplyDeleteAs for the WOT thing - I can totally understand.
Even worse little son is 14 next week and the whole process has started again with him - oh joy!!
Oh dear i so know what is going on..my eldest son 23 now was so easy to go threw this phase, on the other hand youngest is 14 and is soooo driving us mad!!how can 2 boys be so different? i fill the kitchen with food but he cant find anything to eat!! GET UP= uh? GET A BATH=urrgh? BRING YOUR WASHING DOWN= wot? why? yes its madness, how long will this go on for? i hope not much longer i want my boy back that i enjoyed a proper conversation with .help??
ReplyDeleteOh dear, these changes are hard to cope with aren't they. I've been watching my nephew morph into someone else too. He turns 14 on Friday and has shot up. His voice is breaking, he is loud, he is hungry, he has the beginnings of moustache and we can't believe it. He is totally adorable though. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteAnne xx
As you know Penny Patrick will be 19yrs old this summer, if anything he is getting worse I am sorry to tell you. I send the dog into his room in the morning as the tick tick of his paws on the wooden floor drives Paddy spare, he gets up in a bad mood, but at least he gets up.
ReplyDeleteYou do find that they return to you - as almost normal adults after a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteThe weird thing is that other peoples teenagers - your teenagers friends - seem able to hold almost normal, polite conversations with you as do yours to their friends Mums....a very weird phenonemon!!
Blogger is just a pain in the a**e with comments at the moment, a bit like a teenager really!!
Sue xx
I realised the other day that in a few months' time, I'll have my youngest in double figures and the eldest turns official teenager. The difference between them is amazing - eldest finds a lot of things 'boring' if it doesn't involve a shop! Youngest is still happy going to the station to watch the trains. But it does mean I really can no longer say I have young children. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteBeen there, done that, got the t-shirt.....sigh
ReplyDeleteHe will come back..eventually! You just have to ride it out I'm afraid..
Sadly, the same is true of the menopause..:(
Sending big (((hugs))). xx
Boys will be boys!
ReplyDeleteAlthough my youngest darling daughter is also very keen on "Wot?!" and don't even get me started on the "in a minute," and the state of her bedroom!
But we love them really!
Flushes, yes, I know all about that one too!
Best wishes,
Sue xxx
OMGoodness....you have described my Justin to a T! I often look at him and wonder what happened to my chubby little boy and when can I have him back?
ReplyDeleteSounds perfectly normal to me...judging by what my nephew was like at that age! :0)
ReplyDeleteJust hold on to the fact they come out the other side.
ReplyDeleteWhen I met Joe he was lovely - so even if he was on his best behaviour then, at least you know he's in there somewhere! Luke is now 17 1/2 and is, I have to say, in the process of evolving back into a human being. If you think of the picture with the ape evolving into man (you know the one I mean?) well he's kinda in the middle at the moment, on the way back up again. He's still incapable of picking up dirty clothes but will now, however, hold a conversation with sentences containing more than 3 words. This is improvement and, I hope, gives you some cause for hope.
ReplyDeleteThe frequent fridge search is an unconscious act and, like sleepwalking, best left unchallenged. Only have it stuffed full with fruit and vegetables and the habit will soon fade away without the need for medication.
Have been listening to Christina Perri this evening, love it!
xxx
Although my son is 26, he slips out of 26 and into 16 very easily. A young man at work, a boy at home. Oh well, some day the aliens will return him to me intact and I will miss the teenager in him.
ReplyDeleteI always like the Ramones take on Teenagers - "I'm a teenage insult the one your parents despise, Psycho-Therapy, I've got glowing eyes!!" - from the song Psycho-Therapy!
ReplyDeleteAnd to think we were such quiet well-behaved teenagers... well you might have been anyway!!!