A Top-Down Day :)

Got some top down motoring in today with my son, which was fun. He needed a favour of me (take my picture for a project in his German class--believe me, it's a big request! ) so I asked him to come help me vacuum out the Mustang with the big vacuum at Amoco as well as accompany me on another errand. We had pretty decent weather--real far from hot--but better weather to come, which is good 'cos I have to get some more shots for eBay auctions and a moderately sunny day seems to help make a good picture.

Tonight we used a gift card that we purchased to help support the Children's Choir to go to Olive Garden. They give something like 16% of the tab to the kids. I had lobster stuffed ravioli with a shrimp on top of each. As my spouse said, it looked "cute." It was pretty good. I had to laugh though at the end of the meal whilst we collected the check and my son noted that he could have eaten a lot more salmon (his current food fixation when at a sit-down-type place) and
"a bunch of other stuff," if we'd gone to his favourite Friday nite joint, Cholesterol City Buffet a/k/a Old Country Buffet. We take him there as a treat 'cos he loves it but it is not my first choice for eating out, by far.
I wan't feeling generous towards him tonite as he (barely) brought home a mediocre grade report from school this morning. Yes, he brought it home this morning. He'd stashed it in his History book for an entire week and parent's signatures were requested for today, at the latest. So he retrieved it and shoved it in the general direction of my spouse with a request that he sign it. I wouldn't have signed but I was here sleeping, so I'm keeping my lip zipped. Chris has been fibbing about homework assignments being done when their not and his grades reflect the fact that most of his teachers place a heavy emphasis on homework being completed. Many of htem noted that he gets high test scores (and gets along well with (respects rights of) others--moms love to hear that!)
He's only got a quarter left in grade 7, and he's had straight C's in the subject he scores in the top 1% in the nation, state, and county--Mathematics. He's in advanced placement Math and the homework "bores" him but what he may find out is how boring it'll be next year when they mainstream him and he's doing math that he learned two years ago. Now that ought to give him a real big dose of "boring." Kids. Sheesh.
I am so not cut out to be a parent sometimes. It's exasperating and I'm not a patient person but the counseling background puts me in problem-solving mode rather than angry/disappointed parent mode. So the different hat-wearing is somewhat dicey at times
Anyway, that was long-winded. It's very late. I need to wake my spouse up off the LR couch and put him to bed. He did the taxes tonight--we're getting almost $400 back on Federal--yay!

Have a good day/evening and a pleasant tomorrow!

--Cyn