And yet another teenager I haven't mentioned before....

We are raising my 29 year old adult nephew. Why because he refuses to grow up and get a job that he can actually support himself with. Now he moved in while I was sick in the hospital in 2007 to "help" me when I go out of the hospital. Did I ever get any help? No, not then and not now. He pays $200 a month, a deal he made with my Mom. Two hundred dollars a month don't even pay for the food he eats, let alone all the other expenses. He doesn't even buy his own soap, shaving cream and shampoo. I make a point of buying perfume smelling shampoos and soaps for my daughters who he shares the bathroom with but he still uses it. And if they run short he buys a manly scent. What a loser, argh why am I so nice? Which of us is the bigger loser? Him or me for enabling him?

Do I really want to do this....

I know that my tales aren't that different than other peoples, everyday people are living their lives having their problems and most of them are larger than mine. Most of the time I find great joy in my life, but there are times.

My Mom can be the nicest sweetest person and then others she can be the most nasty rude person. She is constantly looking for a fight and then does the "oh poor picked on me." See what I mean teenager. I can handle this to a certain extent from my kids because they have teenage hormones but my 72 year old Mom has no such excuse.

Today a prime example is she was watching a new story and her TV was so loud I could have heard it if I was upstairs with the doors closed, with the TV and the fans on. She decided to tell me all about her news story about a fire, and I told her I knew about it because I could hear it. She proceeded to holler at me telling me that she couldn't help that she was deaf. And I just want to scream that she could get a hearing aid, but, frankly I didn't feel up to repeating myself 2 or 3 times.

A Mom to teenagers.....and an aging parent.

I was really happy to have children it completed the love I shared with my husband. I mean isn't that the ultimate goal of the happy couples everywhere? No, I know it's not I realize some couples never feel the urge to procreate and I say more power to them. I once thought I wouldn't have children and I have three teenagers and a Mom that I see slipping into her second teenage years. Does it scare me? Yes, it scares me to death. Not so much my teenagers because there are those lucid moments when I see their grown up souls and I am thrilled for the future of the world. My Mom on the other hand I am not sure I am up to this, it she going to become a child next? Is it me?