{"id":1526,"date":"2009-04-16T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-04-16T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:58:17","slug":"life-with-peppermist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/04\/16\/life-with-peppermist\/","title":{"rendered":"Life with PepperMist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"peppermist\"<\/a>I’m the first to admit that when it comes to my kids? I got DAMN lucky. They’re mostly good kids, and I actually ENJOY hanging out with them, most of the time. I’d like to take all the credit, but I’m not sure if I can – I just know that as their Mother it’s my right to do so. Hee.<\/p>\n

Life with PepperMist, my 14 year old, is a never ending session of snarky fun and laughter and many, many days where I just shake my head and wonder. As amusing as I like to think I am, I couldn’t have possibly been as funny as my middle child.<\/p>\n

For instance – here’s a few of the conversations we’ve had lately:<\/p>\n

PepperMist: Don’t throw that fork at me!
\nMe: (tosses – laughing) You’ve been FORKED!
\nPM: AHH!
\nMe: (tosses more) And Spooned! And CANNED! And you DESERVE it!
\nPM: No! It wasn’t me! (grabs an empty picture frame) I’ve been FRAMED!
\nMe: … you win.<\/p>\n

PepperMist: So, I have this theory…
\nMe: Uh oh…
\nPM: They say you are what you eat, right?
\nMe: Sure…
\nPM: Well if THAT’s true, than aren’t we all cannibals?
\nMe: …wha?!
\nPM: Because I am a people, my friends are people, you I’m not so sure about, your an anomaly – but if to become a people we must eat people, by definition we are cannibals.
\nMe: … you win.<\/p>\n

PepperMist: So, my teacher asked me today HOW to tell the difference between informal and formal speech. I told him it was easy.
\nMe: Oh? Do tell…
\nPM: (takes on a very bad British accent) If it makes you want to read like this, then, good sir, it is most obviously and positively Formal Speech!
\nMe: … absolutely.<\/p>\n

Peppermist: (reading over my shoulder) Who’s Mindy?
\nMe: A friend.
\nPM: You haven’t mentioned her much yet, she must be a NEW imaginary friend!
\nMe: She wears a white coat, and is coming to take you away!
\nPM: to DISNEYLAND? the happiest place on EARTH?
\nMe: uh. no?
\nPM: WAIT! Is she a serial killer? because if she’s coming to take me away, I really don’t think I could go with someone that Kills Cereal. I love my fruit loops too much!
\nMe: …<\/p>\n

PepperMist: My hatred of feet has risen to a new level!
\nMe: …oh?
\nPM: Yes. My Anti-Foot Fetish is so bad that I’m going to CONVERT TO THE METRIC SYSTEM!
\nMe: …<\/p>\n

PepperMist: I have decided that I am a Zombie! BRAAAAAAAINS. I’m gonna eat your BRAAAAA…wait. Sorry, forgot about your “condition”
\nMe: Excuse me?
\nPM: (HEAVESIGH) Blond Brainlessness. Absolutely NO NUTRIENTS there.
\nMe: … Poor child. Just remember the Zombified apple does not fall far from the tree…<\/p>\n

Me to Mindy: Not a court in the world would convict me.
\nMindy: She’s a Zombie. You can’t get in trouble for killing the undead.
\nMe: GOOD POINT!
\nPepperMist: Noooooooooooooo! I’m meeeeeltinggggg!
\nMe: That’d be the wicked witch, not a zombie.
\nPepperMist: Oh, in that case, YOU’RE meeeeeeelllllllllltinnnnnng!
\nMe: …<\/p>\n

Now, don’t you wish you lived at MY house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m the first to admit that when it comes to my kids? I got DAMN lucky. They’re mostly good kids, and I actually ENJOY hanging out with them, most of the time. I’d like to take all the credit, but I’m not sure if I can – I just know that as their Mother it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,140,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-daughters","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}