My eldest daughter is getting her braces off soon. We've been told they should be coming off in August.
This is making my eldest very happy as they'll be off before she starts high school.
The other thing that makes this teen child happy these days is sleeping in.
But tomorrow my eldest has an orthodontist appointment at eight am. Yep, eight in the morning.
But in a few minutes she won't.
Because as I was thinking about what a rotten mood she's going to be in all day because she has to get up early for this appointment tomorrow, I decided I didn't want to deal with this.
So, in a few minutes I'm going to call and change the appointment to a different time next week so that we can see the orthodontist later in the day.
Sometimes it's just easier not to not set yourself up to be made miserable by your kids when you can avoid it, ya know?
i totally agree. there will be plenty of times when she has to get up early.
Posted by: Madge | July 10, 2009 at 01:31 PM
sounds like a great idea. Why make yourself be up early enough to get her to the ortho by 8 anyways! I think I would have made the same choice.
Posted by: Becky | July 10, 2009 at 01:48 PM
pick you hill to die on. an eight o'clock appointment just isn't mine either.
Posted by: margie | July 10, 2009 at 08:29 PM
I was going to say, pick your battles, but I see margie has already said that ... and I learned it from her!
Posted by: Kath | July 11, 2009 at 11:55 AM
I agree. I wouldn't do it if I were you! lol
Posted by: Sandi | July 11, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I would have done the same thing!
What I'm not looking forward to in a few weeks is marching band camp week. She has to be there and ready by 8 am... and they are there until 5 pm with evening activities three nights... for six days in a row. Fun, fun, fun! Yeah, she's barely up before noon while on "vacation" this summer.
Posted by: Cindy | July 11, 2009 at 01:07 PM
I agree! Who wants to be somewhere at 8:00am if you don't have to!
~A Lil Enchanted~
Posted by: LaShan | July 11, 2009 at 04:17 PM
Man, I wish you had been MY mom when I was a teenager. She's a morning person so she thought I should be, too. She got a huge kick out of waking me up with a song and a smoothie.
Posted by: Keely | July 11, 2009 at 09:59 PM
What a nice mom! :)
Posted by: Becki | July 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Amen. As crazy as the late morning sleeping in makes me, why add a bad teen aged mood to the mix?
Posted by: Fannie | July 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Amen!
Posted by: M&Co. | July 13, 2009 at 05:15 PM