You can’t take my kid.

by Lynn on February 20, 2012

It’s about time a piece of mail changed my life…
’cause I don’t wanna do it myself.
Too much work.

Alas, all of the mail was for my high school sophomore.
It endeavored to lure her away from me.

No. Too far.

No. Too far.
Imagine my relief when I finally found a letter addressed to me:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Tagged as: being a grown up

{ 9 comments }

Kim @ Homesteader's Heart February 20, 2012 at 6:14 am: I just want to know two things. Did you try it and if so, did it work? LOL! I mean I don’t have wrinkles or anything. I have “laugh lines” and by golly I’ve earned every single one of them and I’m not to sure I want them to disappear.
Have a FANTABULOUS day girlfriend!
Kim
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mom taxi julie February 20, 2012 at 11:34 am: LOL! I was going the same thing with my oldest. Umm that’s too far…. TG she got accepted to her first choice, a mere 2 hours away!
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Jo H. February 20, 2012 at 12:56 pm: Ohhhh … the first birdie getting ready to leave the nest … that’s a big change, for all of you. Good luck to the birdie, and to the parents and sibling too!

Those wrinkle products scare me. Just what is in them that we are supposed to be putting on our skin, especially around our eyes??
Georgia February 20, 2012 at 1:01 pm: Wow, good luck with that. That is a day I am not looking forward to.
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Bedina K. February 20, 2012 at 1:21 pm: It’s really kind of hard to choose a school for your child. But what, I’m kind of intrigued with that 90-wrinkle removal product. Is that for real?

I love your mails! Very personal!

-Bedina
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Christopher February 20, 2012 at 1:55 pm: What I love best about this is the complete surprise at the end. I was really expecting there to be a letter from a nearby college and for you to say, “No, too close. She’ll be coming home to do her laundry every weekend.”
Cottage By The Sea February 20, 2012 at 8:32 pm: This post absolutely cracked me up. The last thing I expected to see at the end was a free sample of wrinkle cream!

My baby is a senior in high school this year, so those envelopes coming to our house are now Accepts and Rejects. I don’t know why but, my kids try to pick colleges as far away as they can. Here we are in San Diego, CA and my kid wants to go to University in Quincy, Illinois? I don’t even know where that is. She doesn’t even know where that is. It is just very, very far away. (Brought to you by mothers who are subconscious about their parenting techniques.)
Nancy LeB February 20, 2012 at 8:52 pm: It’s good to be an “occupant”!
Eileen February 21, 2012 at 1:00 pm: Man-oh-man, do I know what the barrage of college brochures is like — we’re DROWNING in them right now!

But… laugh lines? Nope, not gonna get rid of ‘em. I worked hard — *laughed hard* — to get them.