My Uber Cool Mom

(me and my uber cool Mom)

I am the youngest of three boys.  Here is a condensed list of what we put my Mom through:

• Jumped out of windows with umbrellas
  
• Chased each other with knives
  
• Started a 3 alarm fire in the field behind our house
  
• Housed 2 rats and 8 hamsters, all at one time
  
• Consistently hid under the bed when it was time for church
  
• Got a DAILY automated call from the school saying "Your child has been absent from one or more classes..."
  
• Kicked her car out of the garage so we could work on ours
  
• Turned her kitchen into a full service tennis pro shop  
  
• Ruined her table by waxing skis on  it

Really my Mom was a good sport about all this.  When two boys would fight she would put the two together in the unfinished basement until they worked it out.  We affectionately called it "Momatraz".

Sometimes I feel bad for what we put my Mom through.  I tried to tell her this once and she just laughed and said with a wry smile "No apology necessary, you have your own children".  Oh boy... does anyone know if they still do boarding schools?  

This post is part of a world wide blogging tribute to Moms led by TheBlogFrog