My youngest son is extremely excited about his school disco tomorrow evening. Last year , at the ripe old age of 8 he was worried about getting drunk – “what if I drink too many beers and fall over?” he asked me and when I told him there wouldn’t be any alcohol he was horrified “but it’s a DISCO, I thought they always sold alcohol”.
This year he is worried about over-sweating. ”Mum, I am SO going to get too sweaty. What should I do?”. I made some helpful suggestions about avoiding excessive over-exertion and he said ”mum….it’s a DISCO, of course I’m going to get over excited”.
He’s being very cagey about who is going with who, but has put in a MAJOR order for hair gel.
I also have to go and listen to his trumpet concert tomorrow where he is doing “God Save The Queen” as a duet. Which I’m sure is what he did last year (Aussie friend – can you remember?) and he STILL can’t play it properly. I don’t think he’s made any progress whatsoever in a whole year – he must take after me.
December 11th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Bless, bless. I can’t think this might be my little guy in a couple of years, but they’re so old for their age when they have teenage sibs that it will definitely happen.
December 11th, 2009 at 4:52 am
MMmmm yes all sounds familiar , J still playing when the saints, so maybe it is a slow instrument to master. Have you ever tried it is bloody impossible. My H has same problem with the sweat …I advised him to go oustside alot to cool down , but don’t know if he’ll be allowed. Umm weat and too much hair gel sounds a bit messy too me!
December 11th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Oh, how funny. I love that he expected there to be beer x
December 11th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
When I had hair, no one used gel.
What’s a disco…..? Beer sounds good!
December 13th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Oh, Lord, I’d love a bath. Complete with hairballs and gunk, even. Perhaps
with my kids instead of yours (they used to do exactly the same thing, and if I did lock the door, would hammer on it). Oh to wallow insead of briskly showering. Luxury.
December 13th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Can’t believe it’s a year since we were with you last Christmas. I am ashamed to say neither of us accompanied you to the trumpet concert. You did borrow our camera though. We were either too jet-lagged or had to be somewhere else, but now I’m sorry we didn’t attend. I hope it was a triumph! He deserves to do well. x
December 13th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
OH. I thought you were there. Now I remember, I used your camera. Oh well. I know. Can you believe it was a year ago? And what a difference a year has made in my ex’s life! Unbelievable. Reassuring I guess that it can happen Lx