Let’s put it this way, life in a houseful of teens is never boring! Just when you think you’ve seen and heard it all, there’s something else to set your eyeballs rolling.
Raine’s class is at 2:00pm. After lunch at noon time, we still have an hour to spare before we have to make the trip across town to her college. She was happily doing some online shopping when she suddenly jumped up and went “OMG, I forgot I have a Math test today!”
It’s 12:30pm. We have to leave the house at 1:00pm and she digs out her books and starts reading. That’s my Raine. She does that all the time – forget that she’s got a paper to write or an exam she’s supposed to study for until the very last minute and somehow still manages to wing it every time!
One weekend, we’re at the grocery store. The nice thing about groceries on the weekend is that we can stroll down the aisle and have 101 food and drink samples offered to us by promoters as enthusiastic as universal life insurance agents to make a sale.
My girls love chicken nuggets but we’re cutting down on processed food so I don’t buy them much any more. Skye obviously misses her nuggets very much. So there’s my little prankster, leading the way down the aisle calling out, “Are there any free nuggets? Are there any free nuggets?” and suddenly someone answers, “Yes, over here!!” And Skye was like OMG, my prayers have been answered!
. All I know is that I’m never too busy to listen, and I never tire of talking with them.
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I’ve been asked many times how I manage to get my teens to come to the gym with me at the unearthly hour of 7:30 in the morning. Apparently it’s common for teens to sleep till noon time. One mother even told me her teens wake up at 5 pm in the evening 
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