Thursday, February 14, 2008

Alex's 13th birthday and the birth of Banner Lady



Alex turned 13 today - a teenager... I'd been teasing her for the past two weeks that I was going to make a birthday banner and have them hang it at the dance (which was yesterday). She'd get mad and tell me I better not, and I'd tease her some more and tell her I might even put one of those naked pictures of her on it from when she was a year old. Then she'd get madder, and I'd finally have to tell her a banner would cost $50 bucks to have made and that there's no way I'd spend that, just because at this point I was afraid she wouldn't even go to the dance. Once while I was teasing her, I told her I thought it would be really cool to be known as the Lady who makes all the Banners and that I should really start making banners for everything. Banners are cool. She just thinks I'm weird. So anyway, this is what I did for her today. I got up this morning at 6:30 and ran over to the school and hung it, then I told the people that give her a ride to make sure she saw it. Ryan's dad said he pulled over to "check his tires" and made sure her window was facing the banner. He said it was funny watching her face as she read it. Then she said, I think my mom put that up there. And he said, You're right. I was still a little nervous, but when I asked him if she was mad, he said not at all. Yippee! I feel like a pretty good mom now, because I wasn't sure I'd go through with it, what with the having to get up 15 minutes early and go out in the cold and all...

1 comment:

Harvey said...

Hi Robyn, I saw your post on the Fatcyclist Blog, saying you'd found him through "the bloggies". I like to read blogs but have difficulty navigating the blogosphere. Are there any good directories of blogs? What are the bloggies? Is it all just a bunch of flailing around? Thanks, Harvey [Chubby Old Roadie] - harveyema@comcast.net