On Monday my 15-year-old son and I headed to the DMV in Heber for the SECOND time. The kid wants his driving permit, and frankly I’m ready to have him cart me around like Cinderella in a pumpkin carriage. Once my 18-year-old went off to college I lost not only my chauffer, but also my […]
Category: high school
Driving Me Crazy
When my eldest son turned 15 I took him to the DMV, where he promptly received his driver’s permit on his birthday. As I watched the lady behind the counter give my son his new credential my hair instantly turned three shades whiter, and the lines on my face dug in a little deeper. It […]
Crescent Super Band Goes for a Grammy
When you’re a kid you dream big. And if you’re a musical kid then one of your biggest dreams is winning a Grammy. As you probably know from reading my blog my teenage, music-loving, jazz-playing sons are in two different audition-only professional jazz bands. One of those bands, The Crescent Super Band, is recording its […]
Graduation Advice to the Daughter I Never Had
Last Monday night I had the wonderful opportunity to give the keynote address at the Park City Woman’s Athenaeum Club Mother-Daughter Tea honoring the 2013 graduation of Park City High‘s young women seniors. Usually the speaker is an alumnus or alumni mom (neither of which I am), so I was surprised (yet honored) when I […]
Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band, A Crescent Christmas
Happy Black Friday! Did you get out at the crack of dawn today to buy Old Navy T-shirts in colors you’d never wear just because they were two for $10? I chose to stay home an surf the Web for the exact same deals. Now with online shopping making EVERYTHING more competitive, watching the bargain […]
Mr. Miner Pageant at Park City High
Wednesday night my 17-year-old son, Derrick, was a contestant in the Mr. Miner Pageant at Park City High. Ah yes, every mother’s dream. Let me explain. Mr. Miner is an annual Park City High event right around homecoming week. (The “miner” being the Park City High mascot.) The student body selects 10 senior boys (this […]
4 Things I Hate About Back-to-School
Back-to-school season is in full swing. Even though it’s great having my kids out of the house from oh-dark-hundred until 3:00 p.m., there is a price to pay. The school actually expects me to do some stuff. Nuts to that, I say. Here are four things I don’t give a rat’s patootie about when it […]
First 3 Days of School and Already I’m Tired
School started on Wednesday of this week, and I was doing the happy dance as my kids drifted out the front door. Granted, it was 6:00 a.m. at the time, as the older one has a zero hour class. Yes, you heard me right; ZERO HOUR, as in the class that happens prior to first […]
A Love Letter to My Friends With Graduating Seniors
Even though my oldest is only 17 and just ending his junior year in high school, most of his friends are seniors and thus getting ready to graduate and move on to the next phase of their lives, which involves bleeding Mom and Dad dry of every last dime they have; AKA college. Many of […]
Passion Makes Perfect
The UPS guy just dropped off a package, but I had to go outside to chat with him because there was a tenor sax and a bassoon wailing in the house. Actually, the latter was a tromboon, called such become my son took the mouthpiece and reed from his bassoon, stuck it in his trombone […]