Conversation with son: Me: "I would like you to fill up the yard debris bin with leaves today. Son: "Maybe." Me: "That is not going to work for me." Son: "OK." Me: "OK, what?" Son: "OK, I'll do it Mom. It's not like you need a confirmation from me because you are going to make me do it anyway." Me: "Good point." Yaaaaay! At least I didn't have to snag his I Phone and start walking away to get his attention... like I had to do yesterday. I fantasize about the day that one of them will come to me and say. "What needs doing, Mom, I'd like to give you a hand?" Dream on.
I had a brief family meeting and nobody is really happy, but I did get some buy-in to cooking meals... my son made tacos tonight. My heart is aching for my son, who should be going back to his University tonight, but isn't because he messed up. Tomorrow is the start of his new life and I pray that he is successful. He has lost a lot and needs to make a lot of changes and I'm going to struggle daily with allowing him to feel the consequences of his actions, because he is still my boy and I want to protect him from pain... which also means preventing him from really growing up. This really is hard.
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