This mommy thing is easy!

I picked the girls up from school yesterday and I was prepared to have “the talk” with Autumn about how she’s too young for boyfriends, etc.

She got in the car with a “Guess what Mom?”

It seems Autumn and Adam are no longer a couple. She broke up with him yesterday after school saying she thinks she is too young to have a boyfriend and she just wanted to be friends with him. He’s OK with it. She told me she’d been staying up at night thinking about it and worrying about how to tell him.

So she did what I wanted her to do without me having to convince her at all. Wow.

Personally, I think it had to do with him calling her “Honey.” There’s just something about those food nicknames that doesn’t set well with my genes, I guess.

This morning, I teasingly called Autumn, “Honey.” To which I got a “mmmmoooommmmm.”

A bit later, I told her she had to change her jeans because she can’t wear holey jeans to school. Actually what I said was, “Could you change your pants.” She replied, “No.” To which her dad said, “Don’t tell your mother no. Say ‘Yes, Mother’ and go change your pants.”

And Autumn and I both said at the same time “I/She doesn’t like to be called mother.”

So Autumn and I were on the same wavelengths this morning. And somehow Amanda managed to get out of the house with holey jeans. That girl is a slippery one.

My own mom and I were on the same wavelengths last week. I had stopped to look at a used car for sale and then called her about it. Turns out she’d looked at one too. Two different cars, but they were both the same model with sunroof, leather seats and multi-CD player.

I have to figure out what Autumn is going to do for her birthday party. She turns 10 (double digits!) on May 19. She wants to have a party and yesterday asked if she could invite 25 of her closest friends. You have to realize that there aren’t even 25 fourth graders in her school.

She did compromise and name just six girls that absolutely have to come. She wanted to take them swimming, but I said no. And now we’re talking about going roller skating.

I did remember to send her photo into our local TV station that broadcasts “First and Ten” birthdays. She’s been after me to do it every since she turned 9, but you are supposed to send them in two weeks ahead of time so I had to wait. I’m proud of myself. I sent it in 16 days early!