I live with 4.75 teenagers. These were once my babies and now are unique creatures who often resemble fragrant, helpful allies and other days pose as smelly, ungrateful strangers.
Like dependent joeys, they once hovered around me for transportation, food and internet passwords. Now some of them drive cars, buy their own chips and stop whispering when I walk into a room.
“What did you say? Who’s doing what?” I plead like a pitiful toddler. Life has cruelly circled around — I am now the one who craves to be let in on secrets and it is I who must take naps.
One of my teenagers currently displays an unusual, robotic sense of humor — like when he greets me at breakfast by pointing sharply at me and saying:
Target Acquired.
We discussed respect / disrespect today. Sometimes I ask him to complete a chore and he jokingly answers:
Yes, I will not do that.
When I was finished with my mini respect lecture, he offered me a rigid handshake, peered at me with a robotic stare and stated in a monotone:
Thank you for your candor.
Minutes later, he offered me another stiff hand and droned:
Congratulations. You have been reinstated as our mother for another five years.
We had some other options, but this worked for us right now.
After eating the lunch I prepared for him, he approached me again with:
Congratulations. Your term as mother has now been extended for the next TEN years.
Unless you perish.
Time for a nap.
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Hahah – not having teenagers, the closest I can come to this is the witty reply of the 20-something in my new office. I noticed the refrigerator door was ajar for the second time that day…I closed it and spoke to the little group sitting nearby, “the refrigerator door was open”. To which he said, “you fixed it”.
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Haha…its’ good they have you!
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Hilarious!!! This made my day 😀
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Oh thank you! So glad you stopped by 🙂
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I can see my oldest son doing this when he was a teenager
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I can see you survived it…very encouraging 🙂
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Reblogged this on My Life in Our Father's World and commented:
If you have ever lived with a teenager, you will laugh out loud at the latest post from Word Soup
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With God’s help we did.
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Nice post. It brings back a lot of memories especially the part about the teenagers stop whispering when you enter the room.🙂. I enjoyed reading it.
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How kind of you to comment…thanks, Beverley ❤
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Great post. The bantering tells me that this person really loves you and want to have fun in their own way. Thanks for sharing.
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Haha 😄 another 10 years “unless you perish” 😱lol
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Yes! So far, I am still here by God’s grace 🙂
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