{"id":363,"date":"2006-01-06T17:34:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T02:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/01\/06\/um-what\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T02:40:09","slug":"um-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/01\/06\/um-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Um. WHAT??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok &#8211; so. Remember back a few days ago when I mentioned that The Boy discovered that he <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/12\/30\/in-other-news-2\/\">wasn&#8217;t really invisible to girls<\/a>? And how pleased he was to discover this fact? and how I was wimpering and crying cuz dammit, that&#8217;s my BAYBEE BOY and well, I&#8217;m not old enough for this?<\/p>\n<p>WELL.<\/p>\n<p>The boy walks in from School today, and OH so casually says &#8220;I might need a ride tomorrow, mom.&#8221; and I look up and he&#8217;s holding out a little scrap of paper. On it is A GIRL&#8217;S NAME AND PHONE NUMBER!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/83155203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"176\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" class=\"tt-flickr\" alt=\"a PHONE number !?!?!?!!!!!!\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/36\/83155203_48cc5a3732_m.jpg\" \/><\/a> I&#8230;.blink, and look at him, and growl something like &#8220;Wha&#8230;??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he just GRINS all full of hisself. &#8220;She asked me to go to the movies with her tomorrow. I&#8217;m supposed to call tomorrow to get the showtime from her and we&#8217;ll meet there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>um. EXCUSE ME? WHO said this was OK? WHO SAID HE COULD GO OUT WITH A GIRL??<\/p>\n<p>I managed to keep my calm (and not burst into tears. MY BAYBEE!) and ask a couple questions, and it&#8217;s likely a group thing, but she did ask him specifically, and he has her phone number, and they&#8217;re going to see Cheaper by the Dozen 2, [um, which actually isn&#8217;t playing locally right now, so don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re gonna go see instead] so the movie is approved [er, see previous asside. heh. They&#8217;ll likely hit Narnia instead, though.], and well&#8230; well.. it&#8217;s my BAYBEE dammit! But I swallowed and nodded and he just looks so goddamn PLEASED with hisself that I promised him the ride, and that we&#8217;d rearrange his appt with Miss A and his haircut if we needed too and GOSHDARNIT WHY does he have to GROW UP! I&#8217;m not READY for this shit!<\/p>\n<p>But I did the SENSIBLE mommy thing, and I grinned at him approvingly and boosted his ego, and promptly called and yelled at his Grandpa:<\/p>\n<p>G: Hello?<br \/>\nMe: WHAT ARE YOU TEACHING MY SON?<br \/>\nG: Uh. something good &#8211; I&#8217;m sure.<br \/>\nMe: HE GOT A GIRLS PHONE NUMBER TODAY!<br \/>\nG: Well ALRIGHT BOY!<br \/>\nMe: ARGH!<\/p>\n<p>Then I called his grandma, who says she is feeling like taking in a movie tomorrow &#8211; much to the boy&#8217;s complete mortification, then I called his Auntie, who said &#8220;GOOD for HIM!&#8221; and I banned him from her house, and then&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I sucked it up.<\/p>\n<p>My boy is growing up. *SOB* I&#8217;m not READY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok &#8211; so. Remember back a few days ago when I mentioned that The Boy discovered that he wasn&#8217;t really invisible to girls? And how pleased he was to discover this fact? and how I was wimpering and crying cuz dammit, that&#8217;s my BAYBEE BOY and well, I&#8217;m not old enough for this? WELL. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primaries-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}