I'm in a totally new stage with this parenting thing. All of a sudden I have way too much free time on my hands. Y'all know this means trouble, right? They say idle hands are the devil's workshop.
What has happened, I think, is that over the last year and a half or so several things occupied my time. Within about a month, most of those things disappeared. Some, like the cable, I got rid of on purpose. (Oddly enough, to create more free time.) Some, like a relationship, just ended. And somewhere through all this, perhaps while I was out on dates and watching too many episodes of The Big Bang Theory, my kids grew up even more.
So now my daughter just turned 15 (what??) and my son will be 18 in about three weeks (what????). He hasn't needed me for much for quite some time, and now she's expressing her independence. (Hell hath no fury like a 15-year-old girl who has been told "no," let me tell you.) For the most part, she's holing up in her room or hanging out with friends. Which is good...she's a normal 15 year old.
But I'm ending up sitting on my pretty, oh-so-comfy couch, under my snuggly, fake white fur blankie and wondering what the heck to do now. Go for a walk? Did it. Call a friend? Yeah, but you can really only pester them so many times before they start wanting to buy you a puppy. There's always laundry. Meh. Paint the furniture? Maybe when the weather turns nicer...and I decide exactly what I want to do to that poor entertainment center. Read a book? Why doesn't that sound more appealing than it should?
*Sigh* I'm working it out. Hopefully I won't get into too much trouble in the meantime. ;)
