Life with teenage children

Oh my life with these lovely teenagers. Does anyone ever survive??? tell me the truth is their a rainbow at the end of this???? I wonder. It is now 1 am in morning and I'm writing this because of the eventful night I have had chasing down those wonderful children that I keep telling myself will pay for my nursing home one day. The summer break has started and I'm only 3 days into it. AM I GOING TO MAKE IT???? My Ashley got her summer school papers in today. Because of course she's failed 3 courses, and she acts like I'm the dummy LOL..Our high school has a rule that if you miss more than 5 days of school without a note then you automatically lose 10 points from your grade. Well the papers came in and it said that ashley had missed 11 times in Us History, and 10 times in bilolgy. Now the issue I have with this, besides the obvious that she's failed. Is how is it that you see her leave to go to school EVERY morning and she misses 11 classes... hmmmmmmm... must be the obvious she's skipping school... I confront her and she's like ARE you nuts??? I'm starting to think that she might be right.... maybe it is me. Maybe because I want her to grow up and have an education and live a healthy life makes me nuts. I sometimes think when children turn 16, they are taken over by alien beings (of course sent by my mom because she totally thinks I deserve this) that corrupt their minds to make them selfish, selfcentered and just plain ole illogical. She has also informed me that she is moving out when she's 18 because she's going to be able to pay her own way with her 160 dollar a week paycheck plus go to school full time. NOT.. can you tell this child has gotten to me LOL... well here's hoping she gets her act together. She turns 18 on October 29th. That's my deadline





.

Maddy playing guitar.. and vinny getting cake smushed in his face at his graduation party