Fifteen things

My youngest child turned 15 today.  So here are fifteen things to commemorate being in labor and giving birth (it’s all about me after all):

1.  On Friday, I took my daughter and her friend (who happen to share a birthday, though the friend is a year younger) to Disneyland. We stayed overnight in a hotel which made the experience more fun and special.
2. On Friday, as I was trying to leave my house, the guy who mows my lawn let me know that they accidentally broke a window.
3. The “window” was actually the outer pane on my sliding glass door.  It’s shattered into a million pieces, give or take a hundred thousand.
4. One of my sons appears to have flea bites on his ankles.
5. It’s always something, isn’t it?
6. The summer weather has intensified and in response, my neglected air conditioner seems to have given up though it still seems to be faintly blowing cold air.
7. Why do things break on the weekends?
8. I saw “Dunkirk” today.  I was mostly confused, wondering “who is that guy?  is that guy also that other guy?”
9. Last week we took the train to downtown San Diego and watched (sort of) a major league baseball game from box seats.  (Is that what they are called?)
10. I am surrounded by stacks of books but cannot decide what to read next.
11. My 19-year old son is recovering from a strange bout of vertigo that affected him for over a week
12. As I mentioned, it’s always something, right?
13. My husband’s iPhone battery died so he paid $85 to have it replace.
14. The next day, he dropped it and shattered the screen–for the first time ever.
15. Today, he paid $100 to replace the screen.  See #5 and #12.

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