Musings

In past blogs, I believe I've shared that I can be opinionated, sarcastic, brutally honest, hard working and on very rare occasions, sweet. Now my Mum would tell you that I am PIEW, which stands for "Perfect In Every Way", we heard this all the years we were growing up and still  do to this day. I know, my Mum has been in denial for about 50 years. I would die for my boys but I'm not hoodwinked into telling people they are PIEW, pfft, I know better. They are my rays of sunshine, my sole reasons for living, but perfect? BAHAHAHAHAH, yeah, not happening. I will conceded they are quite close to being perfect to me though. Both are considerate, sarcastic, funny, brilliantly smart and thanks to me, good looking. hee hee, although I do think my Dad used to take credit for their looks. I give both my parents credit for my looks, I didn't make myself. :)

As I was saying. My boys are 4 1/2 years apart and for a long time, they were complete torture to raise. In the standpoint that they would argue incessantly, and anyone with kids knows what I mean. "He's touching me", "He's looking at me", "He took my toy/game/food". OMG. But now, Skyler is 20 and Spencer is 15. In the last few years, Skyler has really become a young adult who gets the whiny crap doesn't fly in the real world. He used to love to tattle on Spencer or talk down to him, but now he really is becoming that big brother that I always hoped he would be. He tries to impart his high school advice and naturally, Spencer's reply is usually "yeah, I'm not doing that" when Skyler tries to guide him into a smart move.

 Like Skyler, in middle school Spencer played an instrument and then went into the Theatre club in high school. This was no easy feat for Spencer though. Skyler likes to tell us all that he was the youngest in the family to have a job, since he was 3 when he landed the Scottish Rite/Children's Hospital promotion. Straight out of the acting gate and he gets TV and Radio spots. I took him in for modeling because he was the cutest little kid ever, blond hair with dark blue eyes. I mean he was model material but due to his outgoing personality, which he didn't get from me, oh by the way, she wanted to use him for Acting and the next 7 years that's what he did. He did commercials for overseas and  local TV. Then of course, he decided he wanted to quit that, so he "retired" at 10.

 But now Spencer has entered the Acting ring and is also quite good. I never would have seen that coming when he was a toddler. Dude wouldn't leave my side until he was school aged. Spencer was 10 1/2 pounds at birth, and my happy arse was still carrying him up until he was 4. I did have some killer arm tone though, so there's a plus. Now my little "sack of taters" is 15 and I have to surf the net for size 14 shoes, seriously? I'm afraid he's not done growing, Skyler hit 6'2 at 16, and Spencer is already pushing 6'3, soooo. The up side? I don't have to carry him anymore and they are now my bouncers, my twin towers, when we go out. It's actually very nice and again, I'm thankful every day they are my beloveds.