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There is a possibility that I am becoming obsessed about food. My guest post for The Greenists is about food. Again. Still, I think it is pretty good so you should go and check it out.
The research for this one freaked me out a little bit. I try to trudge through life looking pretty much right in front of me. When I start to look too far ahead, when I start postulating about the future, I have a tendency to become very slightly unhinged. I can not, for example, deal with the fact that there are going to be another two or three billion people on the planet before I leave it. I don’t like people very much, one of the reasons that I was happy to move to one of the most sparsely populated nations on the planet. Anymore than I can deal with thinking about my boys as teenagers. There is no more repulsive animal on the planet than teenage boys. I just can’t fathom that these two gorgeous boys of mine will be making the transition to oily, pimply, testosterone addled thugs in just over a decade.
It isn’t just the big things either, I get pre-emptively depressed if I think ahead to Saturday night.
So, I try to keep it in the day. Put one foot in front of the other. Keep an eye on what is under my nose. And speak in clichés.
What is under my nose today is a hell of a lot of marking. And my boys.
It’s becoming clear that Boy Z is going to share his mother’s complexion. If you look closely at the photo above you’ll see the tell tale signs of freckles beginning to dot the bridge of his nose. I’m thrilled. I always wanted freckles as a kid – could totally relate with Judy Blume’s “Freckle Juice”. Dr. O’C tells me that it wasn’t that great, that she was constantly scorned as a “Freckle Face”. Though, as a goofy looking bespectacled kid with a big nose and a bad haircut I would have taken ‘freckle face’ over a lot of the verbal spears that were chucked my way.
I feel like Boy Z gets most of the face time around here. So, in the interest of equal time, here’s Not Max – freckle free for now.
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I’m 100% with you on not looking too far into the future. That said, sometimes when the future gets here, it turns out much better than you expected. I feared my little boy’s teenage years as well because I was afraid he was too much like me, so we would butt heads. I have been pleasantly surprised that I have thoroughly enjoyed these past 5 years probably the most of the 17 I’ve had with him.
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Not Max is freckle free, but do I see a hint of red hair?
Good to hear (read) from you again.
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I love the blue shade of Not Max’s eyes. Tyler’s are grey-blue, just like mine. I feared they’d fade to brown (because I hear that tends to happen with babies??), but they still match mine nearly perfectly after almost a year and a half.
When I think of the future, I get insanely depressed because I know I won’t be where I’d like to be. So.. I only worry about tomorrow, whenever possible.
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*sigh*
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just had to give props to a guy who read a Judy Blume book!
(on a related note, i remember being *devastated* when i got a light sprinkling of freckles at age 10. yet somehow, i recovered from the tragedy and my life went on…)
Just another reason to snuggles our kids. Puberty is going to come way too fast. Chubby baby fingers don’t last forever.
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One of the most sparsely populated and most highly urbanised nations on the planet, don’t forget. I actually found complete solitude hard to come by in Australia, even in rural environs. You’re lucky–the odd terrain of your house affords you some privacy amid the ‘burbs.
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Freckles aren’t so bad. I had loads on my face as a kid but they faded as I got older. I still have them on my arms though – the curse of the pale skinned redhead!
Can’t get over how alike your boys are – I thought the pic of Not Max was an old Boy Z one. Very cute.
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At a quick glance it looks like I was writing something about BoyZone in my previous comment. I assure I was not.
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“When I start to look too far ahead, when I start postulating about the future, I have a tendency to become very slightly unhinged.”
OMG, you totally described me. I have a very bad habit of thinking about the future and dreaming up the worst outcomes for myself. Once I pass that future “deadline”, it’s usually never as bad as I thought it would be. My latest post is about one of my paranoid trips to the future.
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Actually, there ARE more repulsive animals on the planet than teenage boys – they’re called teenage girls. Trust me, I’ve raised them both, and 14 year old girls? *shudder*
SO gorgeous!!!! And teenage boys are repulsive? I guess I’ve only had to admire my friends’ so far and my own brother didn’t seem that bad…I guess I’ll be fining out in another year or two though.
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I don’t know how early freckles appear, but my hubby just turned 60 and his whole body if full of freckles. He was the only kid with red hair and freckles in the town he grew up in and he had a hard time with it. Personally, I really like the whole combination. I read your post on The Greenists, touched some nerves there, good job. You wrote it well, balanced and full of info.
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Hey, at least three of your players weren’t arrested for armed robbery a couple of night ago…about 24 hours after our oh-so-young coach was bragging about his “incident-free” team.
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I’m sorry, did you say something? I was distracted by the uber cuteness!
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My sister used to get a lot of attention because of her freckles. I used to be so jealous. Maybe I still am. She is still so freaking cute.
Both your boys are adorable.
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Very cool. I am hoping for the same with Lukas. His Mommy has loads of beautiful freckles.
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Since you wussed out and no longer have Georgia football posts, I have to interrupt lovely reveries about your kids to mock you. But you won and UGA is now bowl eligible! The Papajohns.com or Meineke Car Care Bowls await!
Cat – Well, I hope I’m as lucky as you are!
Courtney – I hope not. Red headed men have a tough row to how. Sorry, Jamie.
Joe – They’ll change before too long.
Flutter – Good sigh?
Jen – I loved Judy Blume. Even the’girl’ books.
NATUI – Puberty. Even the word sounds bad!
Headbang – Good point.
Agnes – Way to embrace your complexion. I was wondering about the BoyZone reference.
Susan – Glad to know I’m not alone!
He looks like you.
I worry about food, too, btw, b/c I married a paleoethnobotanist.
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Teenage boys aren’t that bad, trust me you’ll be o.k. They have funny quirks and tend to share your interests. Every stage has its ups and downs.
are there really going to be that many more people? R u kidding me? I’m sorry to sound naive. Wow. Depressing.
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They’re so cute – both of them! It seems like a hundred years ago that my own boys were that small – and I was jigging on the edge of insanity! Then they got a little bigger, we could eat out in restaurants again (Homey don’t play that tantrum thing in a restaurant, see!), and it looked like smooth sailing. Then something happened, just this past year – they turned 10 and 12, and the pre-pube uglies appeared. I love my guys, but Oh My God, they are in a heinous phase right now!
“Doesn’t that make you feel a lot better? What you say? Well I’m just askin?” – B52s – Dance That Mess Around
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I love your Greenists posts so much! You always get people talking!
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Your boys are beautiful. I love freckles too. I think they’re darling. Also, the future? Makes me crazy. I take it one day at a time these days.
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