Fun news! I submitted a photo to the IAFF for the Media Awards contest and it won Second Place in it's category. Awesome!! Jeff Caynon, our Union president called me and told me and sent me a picture of the "big ass" certificate and told me about the honor. For about 30 minutes it was the coolest feeling. People that didn't know me looked at the photo and the description and said, "Outstanding enough for a certificate and a bit of reward money."
Then as is natural the 30 minutes passed and it was, again, no big deal. It was again just business as usual. Then it was wash dishes, do chores, listen to kid be a prima donna... just a big nothing. The highlight of the evening was when everyone got onto me about moving a cottonball holder. That of course takes precedence over everything else.
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I see why parents of teens say "they are making me crazy." Because they are. There is no reason why someone you have raised from the beginning to be kind and respectful gets to act like they do and get away with it. So as a parent of a teen you get to sit back and on the surface be calm so you can set a "good example". I am not real sure you shouldn't just lay some Kremlin-like moves on them and have them seek out ways to keep you from acting like that again.
I am assuming time will be the only way she will be able to look back and go, "God, why didn't they kill me? I am not doing that anymore!" I am sure grandparents get a kick out of this stage in their precious grandkid's lives so that their kids can see what it is like. I just have to keep from alienating her long enough to reap the just rewards of watching her kids drive her up the wall...
Then as is natural the 30 minutes passed and it was, again, no big deal. It was again just business as usual. Then it was wash dishes, do chores, listen to kid be a prima donna... just a big nothing. The highlight of the evening was when everyone got onto me about moving a cottonball holder. That of course takes precedence over everything else.
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I see why parents of teens say "they are making me crazy." Because they are. There is no reason why someone you have raised from the beginning to be kind and respectful gets to act like they do and get away with it. So as a parent of a teen you get to sit back and on the surface be calm so you can set a "good example". I am not real sure you shouldn't just lay some Kremlin-like moves on them and have them seek out ways to keep you from acting like that again.
I am assuming time will be the only way she will be able to look back and go, "God, why didn't they kill me? I am not doing that anymore!" I am sure grandparents get a kick out of this stage in their precious grandkid's lives so that their kids can see what it is like. I just have to keep from alienating her long enough to reap the just rewards of watching her kids drive her up the wall...
