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When you want to act like a kid

July 10, 2012 by Jen

Hip hip hooray. Day 178/366.

He turned 11 two weeks ago. I’m getting around to mentioning it now.

Remember how he was going through a really good stage? I knew that writing about it would tempt fate because he went through the crappy, shitty stage but we’ve come through the other side and he’s back to being good again. I picked him up from vacation care today and beamed when they told me that he’d been excellent and he got to lead an activity. He really enjoyed that and he’s a natural at it.

Three weeks ago he was being sent out because he wasn’t listening, he was answering back and being a general pain in the ass.

So the in the lead-up to his birthday we weren’t getting along at all well and I was THIS close to cancelling the birthday shenanigans.

But I didn’t. I organised a dinner for some of his/our friends. I even organised a cake (see picture above). It was a pretty good night and behaviour was forgotten about for a little while.

I also organised him to have two friends for a sleepover a few days later. I made lasagna and garlic bread. I baked my fabulous banana cake. I took them to see the Three Stooges even though it’s not the type of movie I would have normally gone to see. I cooked pancakes for breakfast and I even manually squeezed orange juice for them. None of them like freshly squeezed orange juice as it turns out and preferred the bought apple juice instead. Weirdos.

I did all of this with good grace and it was a success. But I really felt like punishing him by not doing any of it. Luckily the adult in me kicked in and I didn’t.

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Comments

  1. Joy says

    July 11, 2012 at 10:20 am

    Wow….eleven years old. Hard to believe, isn’t it Jen? I think there will be lots of stages….most of them are fun. JJ looks so grown up to me…and has for a while now. I still think of him as that cute little guy from some years ago. Now I guess he’s ‘that handsome’ guy. Happy Belated Birthday to him. Much love to you both… ~Joy

    • Jen says

      July 11, 2012 at 10:26 am

      Joy, he’s nearly as tall as me. It scares and amazes me that he’s growing up. And he is very handsome.

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