A Generation Gap- Already?

Just a little update... We are doing okay. Just going about our normal business. Trying to keep more busy than not. Poor Max has been having some hives I think, so I may have to take him to the doctor tomorrow if I can. The kids are definitely starting to get a little irritable. This is usual if Ross is TDY. But in the past, he would be home soon enough. Zoey will talk to Ross on the phone sometimes, but Max won't. He becomes quiet when I put the phone near him. Whenever Zoey or I mention "Daddy" he says, "Daddy" and looks around. Max is talking in his sleep. Last night I was awoken by an "Oh no, oh no" so i ran into the room and he was fast asleep. This isn't the first time. I wonder what his little dreams are about!! So that is all with us, now unto my random thoughts for today...

I was sitting at a stoplight today near a more affluent part of town, where it is not uncommon to see kids driving a Lexus or BMW. I looked over and saw some kids in a Jeep just like mine, only much nicer, newer and with band stickers all over, so it was probably theirs. It was four young high school aged boys. They were all stylish in their funny crooked hats and one guy had his leg up so I could see he was wearing those super tight skinny jeans (that is a whole other thing I don't get- boys wearing girl jeans). Anyway, my first thought in my head was, "punks!" Now- take this all with a grain of salt and a little humor, but remember where I am coming from... I stay at home with two small kids and I don't want them to get older than 8 right now! I have a neice and nephew who are older and awesome and really good kids, but besides them, I don't like any middle or high school kids because I don't want my kids to be that age!! I also don't work in a high school like my sister or MIL, where I am actually getting to know these kids as the people that I know they are... so this is just generally speaking and stereotyping!! Anyway, as I said that in my head, I thought, "that is what I used to hear my dad say about some kids!" Whoa!! When did this happen??? And it is true, I realized I have been saying this about all kids I see lately... I drive by a high school a couple times a week to pick up Zoey and these thoughts go through my head. So I quickly broke it down in my head, and this is the time line I have come up with on how I am now a generation gap away from high schoolers!!

When I was in high school- of course I was beyond cool. No question, there.

When I went to college- high schoolers were pretty lame and naive and silly to think they were cool, for clearly now I was the epitome of cool, much more worldly and all (forget that I went to college in small town Texas)

After college- you read those e-mails that talk about "freshman in high school now are born in .... they never lived without a cordless phone, or a microwave" and you think, "whoa, I remember the year they were born, I must be getting old... nah, I am young, and hip, and oh so cool."

And then one day you are driving and look to see that the person driving next to you is just a KID!! And then you have kids and are just afraid of the youth today that you see walking around the mall because you see them trying to act so old and you know that they are still pretty young. And you don't care anymore about being cool... and anyone who seems older and a little "different" seems threatening to your young and innocent children and so they get labeled, "punks."

And so the generation gap begins!!
Coolness... it is all relative anyway, right?;) Well, luckily for me and much to the dismay of my future high school children, my really cool years haven't even begun!! Hee, hee:)