God Created the Heavens and the Earth....

and I created a tween! My oldest son Kace is almost 9... not even in double digits and I am feeling the doom that lurks with warnings of preteen and even teenage attitude. I can hear the echo of my parents telling me my kids will be like me (that scares me). My latest invention to my own demise is a text messaging creature. I, myself text A LOT... I text standing in line at starbucks, the gas station and admittingly when I drive, but since I have been an idiot of distraction and actually slammed into the back of a bigger vehicle than mine I try and limit my multitasking to radio changing, coffee drinking and other quick small tasks and save the text messaging for 'waiting in line' moments or traffic lights. I text approximately 600+ messages a month, sometimes I am not even sure how I can do that much and I am sure there is worse out there, but this takes me back to my earlier bracketed comment about how my parents told me my off spring would be like me... I fear the bill that is already a paper weight will need extra postage for it to be mailed out from now on. At least twice a day I get a text message from him that simply reads "hi mom". I would like to think this will grow old and be a phase, but it is a long phase and until something Cooler comes along in technology I am stuck with my phone going off. It does beat the multiple 20 second phone calls of a kid too distracted to talk, I can now just text him and he can take 2 seconds to respond.

So going down my list of "tween" experiences...
*growing hair long
*talking back
*growling at me and slamming door
*telling me nothing is wrong when obviously something is wrong
*visiting the principles office 1 too many times
*always wrapped up in electronic games
*annoyed beyond reason with younger brother

I am sure this is just the start of a list that will only get tedious to keep up to date, I'd like to think I am ready... but when is anyone really ever ready.