"Rumors are like Wikipedia: anybody can say anything they want."
These words of wisdom came from my eleven year old son this morning, just as he was rushing out the door to school. He is living the middle school life, facing the realities of rumors and peer pressure on his own. Every so often, he says something that just makes me laugh and smile at the dead-on accuracy of his statement. Apparently, some things are crystal clear when one is eleven years old, and just get muddied and confusing over time.
I am glad I actually heard what he said today, instead of my mind being preoccupied with Girl Scout cookie inventory, middle school scrip inventory, lacrosse club merchandise and uniform inventory, trying to think up a Lunar New Year craft project, putting up the Japanese Girls' Day dolls, taking down the Japanese Girls' Day dolls, cleaning up cat vomit or looking for something that somebody needed right that second. The holidays -- the winter ones, at least, have come and gone, melding into the flurry of activity that comes with being a mom-volunteer during the spring months. Summer will be here in a few short months.
Another school year is slipping away.
