THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY

Thank goodness it's Friday - it has been such a CRAZY week. I've about killed the 15 year old cause she's drivin me nuts!

Let's see, it all started Tuesday (luckily I had one good day this week) - she calls me at work at frantic because she HAD to turn in her soccer uniform that day! She was told on Monday that they needed to turn in their uniforms on Tuesday. Well, since she had block scheduling on Tuesday they didn't have the athletic bus to the high school. So, dumb me, thought oh well we can just turn it in on Wednesday. Well, supposedly everyone was telling her that if she didn't get the uniform turned in Tuesday, she would not be able to tryout for next year's soccer team (tryouts started Wednesday!). So dedicated (stupid) mom that I am, I dropped everything at work (luckily my boss Brandy is great) and headed out. Made it from work, to Nicole's school, then out to the high school (approximately 25 miles, some highway, some city streets) in less than 30 minutes. Thank goodness there were not any police around. Anyway, get to the high school at 4:00 - and there was NOBODY there. Needless to say, there was steam coming out my ears and some pretty choice words coming out of my mouth!

So, the next morning I get in touch with someone from the Athletics Department office and they tell me to bring them by there - which I did at 8:00 am. So, of course, was late again for work (again luckily my boss Brandy is great). They promised they would get the bags to the soccer coach. After all that, soccer tryouts were cancelled because of the dumb rain!

Then starts Thursday - even though it was still raining they decide they are still going to have tryouts! So, my darling daughter calls me at 2:30 and says she "forgot" to put any shorts in her backpack. She SWEARS she put them in there, but I guess the Shorts Fairy stole them! So, had to leave work early AGAIN (have I said how great my boss Brandy is???) and take her some shorts. She also had driver's ed last night so wasn't going to be able to stay for tryouts very long (she stayed a total of 15 minutes!). So then take her to drivers ed, hang out at home doing tons of laundry (as ususal), then pick her up at 7 pm.

Friday morning I asked her if she had shorts, t-shirt, shin guards and cleats for tonight (because I'm not leaving early again). And she just says "yes mom" in that snotty tone that you just want to slap them! Like I wasn't justified in asking if she remembered everything. Guess I'm going to have to quite being the enabler and make her remember her own stuff.

Sometimes I want her to grow up, but other times it makes me sad. But right now, I want her to GROW UP! The end!