Moms of Boys

Hope you are all ready for the holiday season! As usual, I am not. Still have shopping to do.

Recently, I've been involved in fighting our high school reassignment; our area in our fast growing county was reassigned to anothe high school for next year, meaning that this would be the third different high school our students would go to in five years.  Crazy.  My oldest son started at one school and was reassigned the following year to a new school where he is now a senior; my middle son started his freshman year at the same school as my older son, but was reassigned for next year. Our group thinks we have things worked out and that the Board of Education realized that our reassignment had to be changed because our area has been hit with reassignment four times in eight years, while other areas have not been touched.  We'll see what happens.  But when you get involved in something like that, that is pretty much all you do for a few weeks -- emails and writing letters and phone calls.  Time to get back to my real job. 

I have to have my next book ready for my agent to submit to publishers in January!  More on that later.  

One holiday boy-related note -- each year I have each of my three sons pick out a gift for someone their age

 

 

 

and we donate it.  Usually they pick out toys or sporting equipment for boys.  But this year I saw the cutest Barbie jeep on sale at the toy store, so I asked Jason if he would like to get something for a little girl this year instead of a boy.  He hesitated, and then said, "Okay, mom, you go buy it, but I'll be waiting over there."  He pointed across the store, as far away from the cash register as possible because he didn't want anyone to see him buying a Barbie.  I loved seeing him take the unwrapped gift to the donation event; he held it like it had cooties.  Another non-politically correct male in my house!