DS went on a DATE!

by **goddessoflubbock** on Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:27 pm

We happened to be home Saturday afternoon around 2:15 (very odd for us, we're usually out running errands then but we got a very early start that day), when the doorbell rang.

DH said it was a girl asking for DS. Turned out it was his little "galpal" and her dad, asking if he could go fishing with them. Mind you, my son has never fished a day in his life. Has no clue what it involves. But it's a yes.

After a quick re-application of deoderant and a toothbrushing, he's out the door. Gone. With people I barely know to go fishing.

Around here people fish in what are called "playa lakes". Playa lakes are really just places the water runs off too after a storm, because our town has no real sewer system. (Because it doesn't rain. Hmm. But the playas are always pretty full). The city stocks many of the bigger playas with fish in the spring. It is bizarre.

An hour and a half later, right on time, DS is home, and overwhelmed with happiness from all the fun he's had. Doing things like cutting worms in half and sticking them on hooks. MY son??? No, they apparently returned the wrong child...... ROFL.

At dinner we were talking about his experiences (except the worm parts); and as it turns out his little girlfriend's dad is an undercover cop with Lubbock police. I said to my husband "and she seemed like such a nice girl too". Fortunately DS didn't get the joke.

He is growing up. Moving on. Without even giving me a "bye mom". Sheesh!

by **Aspen** on Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:38 pm

I'm so glad that he had a good day fishing with his little girlfriend and her dad. Her dad is probably one of the good cops. I'm sorry that you had such a horrible experience with bad ones.

by **goddessoflubbock** on Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:11 pm

He seems like a really nice guy. It's just irony. Or karma. Not sure which.... LOL

I think it's good for DS to also have another adult male to talk with. While DH is a fabulous husband/father, he and DS can be like oil and water with DH having many of the same issues as DS. These people have no idea of DS's dx, and so just treated him like a typical teenager which I think he really needs.

And geez, it was all just so gosh darn cute

by **Sophist** on Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:04 pm

Hehehe, awwww, that's cute, goddess.

by **odeon** on Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:19 am

That's so cool, goddess.

by **goddessoflubbock** on Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:52 pm

Suddenly DS has developed concern over the acne that's been on his face for months - he's lately been torturing his face with alcohol at his father's advice. This is the same kid who you'd have to beg to *wash* his face not so very long ago LOL

by **Aspen** on Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:21 am

goddessoflubbock wrote:Suddenly DS has developed concern over the acne that's been on his face for months - he's lately been torturing his face with alcohol at his father's advice. This is the same kid who you'd have to beg to *wash* his face not so very long ago LOL

If it is the cystic kind of acne, oral Minocycline or Tetracycline helped mine a lot.

by **SomethingElse** on Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:32 pm

It seems the general trend with boys, doesn't it? They go from being perfectly happy not to shower/clean their teeth/change their clothes, to being fairly image obsessed! My brother spends more time doing his hair than me, and this is the boy who used to live in football socks (regardless of whether they clashed with what else he was wearing).

It's one of the nicer aspects of them growing up - the smell improves (I love the smell of aftershave and man products).

by **goddessoflubbock** on Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:27 pm

Fortunately right now he just has the typical little "zits" and whiteheads, not even any blackheads that I could see. (I was an obsessive picker when I had acne).

His smell has greatly improved, thank heavens, because he was really getting a bit rich there for a while. The smell was nearly overwhelming in the car! Now he smells like DH since they use the same stuff, and it's very nice.

His dressing skills haven't improved yet though. He went to Saturday night dinner last week wearing a worn-thin tshirt with a bunch of holes in it (some of which were hastily sewn closed and looked even worse) and shorts with a hole in them.

Yesterday when we went to breakfast he wore his green shorts and a blue tshirt. However even DS recognized that it was a step above his usual combo - a red shirt with the green shorts which usually elicits a humming of "Jingle Bells" from someone... LOL

by **renaeden** on Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:57 am

goddessoflubbock wrote:Yesterday when we went to breakfast he wore his green shorts and a blue tshirt. However even DS recognized that it was a step above his usual combo - a red shirt with the green shorts which usually elicits a humming of "Jingle Bells" from someone... LOL

I have done that before! Got the clothes on, looked in the mirror and uh oh.

I have also put on brown pants and a green shirt then changed my shirt after I thought I looked like a tree!

by **SomethingElse** on Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:18 am

^ That made me laugh. Tree. Haha.

by **goddessoflubbock** on Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:26 pm

DS gave the argument that on the horizon the sky appears to meet the ground - blue meeting green - and he was just emulating that. He can be very funny that way.

He went through a phase where he wore only black, so I guess I should be happy with the colors!

DS went on a DATE!

DS went on a DATE!

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