http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e70q3p4DTjk#t=32s
10. You automatically answer phone calls with the words, “I expected to hear from you half an hour ago.”
9. You can wrap a sprained ankle better than an athletic trainer.
8. The nurses know your son so well that they ask to sign his cast.
7. You purchase a security system to prevent “breakout’s”–not “break-in’s”.
6. Other kids visit your home so often that you’ve considered charging general admission.
5. You’ve learned to interpret grunts as a positive conversational response.
4. Before sports season begins, you buy stock in Stick-ups and foot powder.
3. You now know that spinning cookies in an abandoned parking lot is illegal.
2. High school secretaries are known to contact parents when a “friend” calls to excuse the young man from class.
and the #1 sign that you’re the mother of a teenage boy….
1. When you watch him nod off doing homework, you’re torn between tears of joy and sadness because the little boy has disappeared.
Oh, the stages of letting go are hard on a mom…My baby boy got married last summer and I cried like a baby. Tears of joy, but also of sadness. I had to explain to my lovely daughter-in-law it wasn’t about her, it was about me letting a piece of my heart go. I assured her she would understand one day.
Thankfully the memories of him spinning cookies in parking lots and not doing homework have faded a bit. 😉