Truth from the Blogosphere

This is from a blog I follow...  Rocks In My Dryer 


If You Give a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy a Cookie

If you give a thirteen-year-old boy a cookie,
he's probably going to ask for some soda.

But as you are a mom who is feeling the pressure to make Positive Nutritional Choices,
you will urge him to drink milk instead.

He will shrug, and you will pour a giant glass of milk--whole milk--
and you will reflect that if you drank that much whole milk you would have hips as wide as Tennessee.

He will finish the milk and and wipe his mouth with his shirt,
and you will not complain, because this is better than the milk moustache he normally wears.

He will set down the cup and ask if you've seen his cell phone, and you will tell him you turned it off,
because why-oh-why must he and his friends text each other Chuck Norris jokes all day?

He will shrug, and then he will think of Chuck Norris, and this will remind him of the movies,
which will remind him of popcorn, and he'll ask if you can fix him some.

And you say sure, because you're thinking that popcorn is
a much cheaper snack than the bacon he normally asks for.

He will jerk his head around because he somehow heard you think the word "bacon",
and you will tell him "no, you're having popcorn, remember?"

He will take the popcorn to the living room, and you will remind him there is no longer any eating allowed in the living room because you stayed up late picking brownie crumbs out of the carpet after the last youth group party at your house.

And his eyes will shine and he will say, "Brownie?" and you will say, "NO."
So he will eat his popcorn instead (in the kitchen, like a good boy).

And all the salt will make him crave another glass of (whole) milk.
But he's polished off the third gallon of (whole) milk this week, and he must therefore hike all the way out to the garage to the nasty old back-up fridge.

As he walks out to the garage, you will notice that you can see the bones in his hips, and you will sadly remember that your pants get tight if you even think about cheesecake, and you will know that good metabolism is wasted on those young enough to think that Big Macs are gourmet.

He will return from the garage with the milk, but with all that physical exertion, chances are he's going to want a cookie and a brownie and some bacon to go with it.

Ha! She cracks me up! Check her out...  http://rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/shannon/