Back to School: Student Moms and the Beer Tree

I've always been very bad at blogging regularly, but I'm going to be even worse now. I've just returned to school. And wouldn't you know that on my first morning I'd run into my daughter's eighteen-year-old friend. After she got over the shock of seeing her best friend's mother at her college, she said to me, "Ah, that's sooooooo cute!"

But I'm not the only mom wandering around the campus. In my first class, I sit near three other mothers. Two of whom have four kids each!! We all agreed we damn well better get good grades or our kids will never let us forget about it. We also agreed the kid in the back of the class with the too-loud iPod was just about to get four-angry-mothers on his head about to yank out his ear buds if he didn't do it himself. We each sent him the stare-of-death only people who've raised kids are truly capable of conjuring.

That same week, my husband and I took a trip to visit our daughter at her student apartment. We brought her groceries and she took us on a tour of her college-town.

As we drove by the ocean, she pointed from the backseat, "And that's the path I take to the beach." But I was too distracted. I elbowed my husband and pointed to a stubby, leaf-less tree in a front yard.

"Lovely!" said my husband as he stared at the tree. It was adorned with upside down, empty beer boxes covering its branches. Just then, a shirtless-guy in surf shorts passed us with a twelve-pack under his arm.

Great...

I reached into my purse to get my camera, but my daughter begged me not to take any pictures. I regret that. It was really something.

Comments

[shawn]

Oh! I want to be in that class! I will miss your posts but I havva feeling you might have a lot to write about returning to school!

[Karen]

Congratulations on going back to school! I hope you got a nice Trapper Keeper with a kitten on it. ;)

And I love the idea of a beer tree. Sounds like a good idea for the holidays...

Do your homework, but don't leave us hanging -- your blog is too good!
xoxo

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