It begins.

You know, I talk to many friends & family who have teenagers, and to be honest, I'm a little apprehensive about dealing with them when my kids get to that stage. And to make it worse, I feel that since my oldest is a daughter, I probably get to deal with the teenage dramas a little earlier than those of them with oldest sons. And I feel that slowly, every once in a while, I get a dose of what is to come. For instance, this morning:

**I'm in the shower & have just applied shampoo to my hair when I hear someone walk into my bathroom:

Riley: "Moooom! (insert your own whinning sound) I need you to do my hair!!"

Me: "Well dear, since it's only 7:00 (they leave for school around 7:30, 7:40....) you can either wait until I'm done or just do it yourself."

Riley: (huffing) "Why did you have to get in the shower?!! Arggg!!" (stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp then door slams)

With soap suds running down my face & body, I had to keep myself from laughing. You would have thought you were talking to someone who was late for work, had a presentation to make & just got caught in dead-stop traffic. "Yeah Mom, how dare you get into the shower without consulting me first? Now the world is about to enddddd.......!" I think it's good that I can laugh at it right now, because I know in a couple of years (or probably less) it won't seem so funny anymore.