I don’t know how it is for everyone with teens these days, but for me and my boys we like to text!  I’m not just referring to the texts that all parents with children who drive and are with friends likely require – the ones that tell us where they are and that they have arrived safely, I am also referring to the funny texts that allow me to laugh with them and really see the men they are becoming.  They have such different personalities.   I cherish everything about Conner’s easy going, witty personality; the fact that he never meets a stranger and hugs all my friends and makes everyone feel comfortable.  I admire Chase’s depth of feeling and his resolve to stick to his guns when something is important to him; he cares deeply about people and what is right and his jokes are smart and make me continue to laugh days later when I think of them.   Conner, Chase and I all have iphones now (a gift from us for the start of the school year) and so we can group itext and I started one of those the other day – this is how it went:

Me: You didn’t say where you are now

Conner: We are hiding from you!  You can just locate us.

Me: I don’t like to look – I like you to tell me.  Besides seeing a blip on a screen only tells me your general location.  For example, you could be in a church or at a crack dealers house if they were next door to one another and I wouldn’t acually know for sure which one you were at!  Love you guys.

Chase: haha – love you too.

Conner: Mmmm Hhmmmmmmmm

Me: So glad you guys knew that was intended to be funny since my last attempt at a joke flopped

Chase: Yeah it did!

Conner: Just a little. Ha that was a joke

Chase: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahaha

Chase: LOL

Chase: haha

Conner: Now that’s funny

Conner: Mom…

Conner: hahahaha

Me: Oh my! How are you doing that so fast (the messages were coming in like lightning)

Conner: We are beasts.  Wizards is the name we get often.

Conner: It’s like magic

Chase: You’re a wizard Harry!

Conner: I’m a whaaat?

Chase: A wizard. Harry.

Conner: I’m a whaaat?

Me: This is fun – but also making me dizzy (again, the messages are coming in soooo fast)

Chase: A muthafu—– wizard Harry!!!

Me: Is that from a movie?

Conner: Nothing like that helicopier simulator.  Haha you shoulda seen your face.  Ha, classic! (this is Conner’s reply to my comment about being dizzy)

Me: At least I didn’t throw up while we were spinning out of control.

Chase: Everybody in the museum wasn’t very happy!

Me: Oh the memories! I love that we have those stories!