Moms of Boys

How much is that doggie in the window?  I don't know, but I do know how much the window in the front of our house cost:  $258.75  --  thanks to our youngest son, Jason, 7, who recently sent a baseball flying through the window. He was so scared that he took off running into the woods behind our house.  Of course, that probably had something to do with our middle son David, 14, teasing Jason and telling him that he was in big trouble. I sent David out to get Jason, which he did.  "It was an accident!"  Jason was yelling as he walked into the yard.  I told him I knew that it had been.  After all, this is the same window David broke about five years ago with an errant baseball throw, too.  That's why David took so much pleasure in seeing it happen to someone else.  Our yard is not conducive to practicing baseball, yet you can take the baseball away from the boy, but you can't take the baseball OUT of the boy, or something like that.  My two youngest sons love to play the game.

I was at Home Depot recently to find a new toilet handle (fun!)  and ran into a fellow Mom of Boys named Val.  Her oldest son is about Jason's age, and we started talking about what activities they were doing this summer to keep them busy.  We discovered her oldest and Jason were both playing in the same baseball league. "What team?" she asked.

 

I was going through some old photos today, trying to get organized (a neverending job for me); there were a lot of my oldest son, who is a rising senior in high school and will be 17 in July.  I got very sentimental, especially when I came across the School Days scrapbooks that I'd gotten for my two oldest boys -- a book to put their school photos in each school year. 

Hi ladies, In my daily routine and the boys' schedules, one of the things I like to do when I can is to watch the Ellen Show. I love her laid-back, clean sense of humor and think she is quite a natural comedian. I noticed on her website for the show that people can write in and let them know about favorite websites. I'd greatly appreciate it if you were to let them know about www.momsofboys.org -- I have the link posted below, or you can go to her site at www.ellen.warnerbrothers.com and click on the Be a Part of the Show page where the website question is way down near the end.

http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=9

Thanks so much! Sharon 

Check out the May 7th edition of USA Today! House of Testosterone is mentioned in Craig Wilson's Final Word column. Thanks, Craig!! I've been doing lots of radio interviews lately and have been very busy with baseball schedules for my guys (including keeping up with which car each boy left their baseball equipment bag in). Thanks to those of you who have come to my book readings in North Carolina. I really appreciate it!! Hang in there, Sharon

Just got back last night from a great but busy spring break. Started off March 29th when we flew into San Francisco. My husband and I had been there twice before, but this was the first time the boys would see it. I was looking forward to their seeing the city, the bay, etc. and the Pacific Coast Highway area near Monterey where we would drive. It was just as beautiful as I'd remembered from my last time there ten years ago. Anyone who ever goes to San Francisco should make sure they drive across the Golden Gate to the Marin Headlands on the left where there are gorgeous views of the bridge with the city behind it.