3.04.2010

Slacking is in the Eye of the Beholder...

Today she woke up and worried about her hair...and the outfit, inter alia.  As she pondered the fashionable boundaries of that Bonfire of the Vanities called Middle School...her mother and I offered some heavy-handed criticisms of the recurring morning routine.

She politely absorbed our alternate versions of efficiency with a simple smile and a few nods.  Later, as she and her mother walked together to the bus stop, she politely offered her counter-argument:  Mama, I'm just not a morning person.  You have to cut me some slack.

7 comments:

amalia said...

That's a true teenage comment!! I love it!!

(Ken) said...

hmmmm...

(Ken) said...

I can only wonder about all the comments she will deliver in the future....I will need to keep a journal.

Aida Rita said...

LOL ! I am not a morning person .. a true teenage comment indeed. :)

Motownrunner said...

That picture is awesome. Good writing, primo. Funny girl.

I am a morning person. I know. NERD. I love mornings.

(Ken) said...

I don't...L-O-V-E mornings. I like them, but the waking up is the hard part. In my case, coffee makes the charade possible.

Maybe little miss slacker will discover coffee when she is older. In the meantime, we marvel at the true morning people in the family :)

Perky at 0'dark thirty, nope. The military took all the fun out of 0'dark thirty...lol. Glad to see they didn't dampen your dawn...

Abrazos

Elisa said...

I love waking up...just that the mornings are as you say in need of a good 'cuppa joe' and a slow roll outta bed for creakin' bones. But the morning hair with all the curls and the closet drama is hard! Really! At 47 I'm just starting to worry about the curls falling into ringlets...

I agree with her observation and with your needing a journal...I'd love to read your memoirs!!!