It’s the day of the prom, and it will be my last. This is my third and last child to go through the prom thing and he is not as excited as the girls, but still worked up enough to shower and shave. Those of you with teen boys understand that this measures about a 6.0 on a richter scale.
The good news is that this is one of the last times I will have prom expenses. I make the kids pay for tickets, limo and part of their attire, but there are the photos that cost $70, the flowers, the running around for fittings and shopping, the snacks for the people who come over to take hours and hours of photos at your house when you know that they also paid $70 for photos at the prom and other assorted costs associated with this rite of passage.
The bad news is that this is really my last dance – I am done with proms after this – and the approaching high school graduation that I have been avoiding thinking about, is close. I haven’t lost the 5 pounds that I was supposed to have lost by this time in order to fit into a dress or something other than a T-shirt and one of the two pairs of jeans that fit me. (I had better get cracking, so I downloaded some program “Lose It” onto my iPod Touch. It counts calories as you eat them and perhaps its newness will provide some motivation to counteract the motivation flowing from the Midnight Dark Milky Way bar I had after the mini-Snickers bar yesterday. I think I need someone like Jillian on Biggest Loser to yell at me or something. Then I would get mad, go after her to beat her up, and it would probably burn a lot of calories.)
Since everyone is coming here for photos before the limo arrives, I am forced to clean the house and prepare some snacking things. (See, it always comes around again to the snacks.)
I will take lots of pictures and keep the tissues handy.
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“Life is like a roll of toilet paper. It goes faster when it gets to the end of the roll.” ~ I heard this yesterday on a radio commercial on WHAM radio in Rochester, NY
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1 grannyann // May 29, 2009 at 2:53 pm
My grandkids all have their proms ahead of them. I loved your post and I really appreciated your “Life is like a roll….”
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