I have been wanting to lighten things up around here just a little so Rebecca was kind enough to offer to do a guest post.  I hope you will all enjoy her as much as I do because her blog is more than “Just another Blog” : http://landlock-mo.blogspot.com

My mom was often the main contributor to any delinquency on my part. I’d tell her that I was just a couple of months away from finishing this year with perfect attendance. I would be so proud of myself for making it through the year healthy enough to stay in school every single day. I even had pink eye once and refused to leave. The school made me sit in the library at a corner table and I was told to not get up for anything. They even had the school nurse bring lunch to me. One would think that I would have eventually learned to keep my mouth shut because mom would say something like, “What good does perfect attendance do? Do they give you a prize or money for perfect attendance?” “No. They do not” was always my reply. A few school days later, she’d pick me up from school stating a family emergency. Then we’d go out shopping.

While just a few days before, I was thrilled at the thought of having perfect attendance, I was even more overjoyed at the fact that my mom called me out of school to go shopping. Not just browsing the local Wal-Mart either. No. That wasn’t good enough. She would take me up to ‘the city’ and we’d go shopping at the mall! The mall? It was about a 2 hour drive. One way. We’d go straight to the food court and get lunch. Then we’d go around to all the stores and she would buy me a couple of outfits. Shirts, pants, socks, and even shoes. She wouldn’t even look at the price tag. I knew right then and there that my mom was awesome. Forget the perfect attendance this year. I’m having a great time with my mom!

There was this one year she called me out of class early in the day and I was either a junior or senior because I remember getting this family emergency notice and I drove straight home and was worried sick and when I get home mom is waiting at the door and she comes hopping out holding her purse with a big grin and she said, “Lets fill up your tank and go to the mall!” So I drove to the mall for my first time and it was so much fun and amazing.

It was quite a different experience when I was the one doing all the driving and having my mom in the passenger seat rolling down the window and turning the radio up to the radio stations that I loved listening to. It was the most phenomenal feeling ever. I mean I knew that not many moms would call their kid out of school to go shopping and spend money.

My mom was often the main contributor to any delinquency on my part.  I’d tell her that I was just a couple of months away from finishing this year with perfect attendance.  I would be so proud of myself for making it through the year healthy enough to stay in school every single day.  I even had pink eye once and refused to leave.  The school made me sit in the library at a corner table and I was told to not get up for anything.  They even had the school nurse bring lunch to me.  One would think that I would have eventually learned to keep my mouth shut because mom would say something like, “What good does perfect attendance do? Do they give you a prize or money for perfect attendance?”  “No.  They do not” was always my reply.  A few school days later, she’d pick me up from school stating a family emergency.  Then we’d go out shopping.

While just a few days before, I was thrilled at the thought of having perfect attendance, I was even more overjoyed at the fact that my mom called me out of school to go shopping.  Not just browsing the local Wal-Mart either.  No.  That wasn’t good enough.  She would take me up to ‘the city’ and we’d go shopping at the mall!  The mall?  It was about a 2 hour drive. One way.  We’d go straight to the food court and get lunch.  Then we’d go around to all the stores and she would buy me a couple of outfits.  Shirts, pants, socks, and even shoes.  She wouldn’t even look at the price tag.  I knew right then and there that my mom was awesome.  Forget the perfect attendance this year. I’m having a great time with my mom!

There was this one year she called me out of class early in the day and I was either a junior or senior because I remember getting this family emergency notice and I drove straight home and was worried sick and when I get home mom is waiting at the door and she comes hopping out holding her purse with a big grin and she said, “Lets fill up your tank and go to the mall!”  So I drove to the mall for my first time and it was so much fun and amazing.

It was quite a different experience when I was the one doing all the driving and having my mom in the passenger seat rolling down the window and turning the radio up to the radio stations that I loved listening to.  It was the most phenomenal feeling ever. I mean I knew that not many moms would call their kid out of school to go shopping and spend money.

And during my senior year?  The record books said that I had perfect attendance but by the time senior year rolled around I knew the other kids who volunteered in the office during study hall time.  I would skip class and just have the volunteers write up another absentee slip not including my name before turning it in to the office.  Creating a year of perfect attendance.  I usually missed out on the last four classes of the day.  Normally, I would go home and hang out with mom eating lunch and watching Days Of Our Lives. Sometimes, we would make a trip to the mall and there were a few days when I would come home with a group of friends all doing the same thing, skipping out on class, and we’d either hang out at home or we’d ALL go to the mall.  Everyone loved coming to my house because they all knew what I had always known…My Mom Was The Coolest Mom Ever~