Broken hearts and arms

Joe Cool is grounded from his phone, again.Poor guy just doesn't think the ground rules apply to him, apparently. No deleting texts. No calls or texts after 9pm. No asking girls out or breaking up via text. No offensive messages or pictures from or to you.
I just don't understand how stupid kids think we adults are. I mean, in my day, my parents had no proof of secret conversations on the phone (unless the calls were long distance, and realllly long- say to that guy you were in love with that you talked to for hours on end) (what? i paid them back!). If a kid decided then to deceive her parents, it was way easier than it is today. Today, cell phones exist. Every kid has one or wants one. It doesn't fly that they can't call, didn't know what time it was, didn't hear it ring, or had the phone off. Because all parents know that the teens text constantly, check messages compulsively and never have it on ring, but they answer those vibrating tones quicker than a viper strikes.

I am not a mom that wants to snoop. I really don't want to know everything that is going on in my kids life. But when their behavior and attitude warrant it, I am not above snooping like the best blood hound on the planet. And my poor son just doesn't get it. He was shocked that his use of the cell phone/texting for multiple break-ups and renewed vows of love with the same girl over 3 days, plus the late night texts, deleted conversations, and the final straw of compulsively calling and texting another girl (who was at work and couldn't talk) to ask her out (for the Nth time) resulted in loss of phone use. Seriously? Seriously?!
So, he is phone-less and actually SPOKE on a real phone with his VOICE yesterday- to a GIRL. It was amazing. I don't know when he will get his cell phone back, but I am in no hurry- this is kinda fun...of course it would be even more nostalgic if the land-line phone he used still had a 50ft. coiled cord attached that snaked down the hallway and under his locked door....but watching his leap like a gazelle to grab the cordless was fun,too. :) I jsut wish there was a way to pick up the other cordless phone and start dialing over their conversations...LOL.

Llama girl has been busy as well. She got sick with an ear infection and tonsillitis, after regular doctors office hours, of course. Did you ever notice that a child has 10 times the energy after recovering? Well, by Sunday, my Llama was so wired with renewed health, we had to sit in the back at church because she just couldn't sit still- or rather, she wouldn't quit sitting upside down with her feet waving in the face of the people in the pew behind us. For all the wonderful technology that antibiotic medication is, what with saving lives and all- Zithromax broke my Llama's arm.
OK, so not literally. But curing her infections and all that energy made her decide that she might be Olympics bound with this. very. cartwheel. Watch Me!!!!! Nothing unusual for her, she does cartwheels and flips all the time. She took off running, planted her hands down, flipped over...and landed on her stomach because her arm broke mid-flip.
So, now we have an almost 5 year-old in a bright pink cast. For. 6-8. WEEKS.
It was a clean break, no complications. Lots of attention, gifts, cards and sympathy, poor baby girl, right? Oh, wait- we almost forgot who we are speaking of. Her name IS Llama, Llama, Girlie Drama for a REASON!!!
So, she is one-winged and acts like an invalid when it suits her, particularly when I am cooking supper, or when it is time to clean up her room. Her casted arm only itches when she is sleepy, and the new complaint last night was that the cotton lining was sticking to her hand?!

This is Day 5 of logging my slow decent into insanity. Take note so that when my trial begins, I will have a legitimate defense, please.