Work in Progress...

ASid has final exams starting tomorrow. Until yesterday, he was busy wrapping up projects. In fact, he set up camp with a couple of friends on Sunday at our home. Sometimes it all feels very last minute and it brings back memories of my own "last minuteness". As much as I don't want him to be like me, there are days he reminds me of me.

Couple of things I want to record for his future reference.

The first involves pizza lunch on Sunday. As mentioned in earlier posts, pizza is popular amongst teenagers and it is convenient food to order when you have a lot of them to feed. But in our home, we aim to please; so we actually customize pizzas according to the preferences of the teenagers. Given that detail, the Pizza ends up being quite expensive. And when ASid planned the Sunday meet to go from 10 am to 6 pm, I knew we had to provide lunch and that most likely, it would be pizza. I was tired from the dinner we hosted the night before and a little under the weather, plus the demanding Hockey schedule on top of that did not help at all. I also had my assignments to work on and I probably just needed a day off that wasn't coming my way...I did not feel like dealing with the ordering of pizza. I requested the teens to walk over to our neighbourhood Metro and grab a couple of pizzas from there. Metro had a special - a 3 topping extra-large pizza for $9.99 + tax. The boys did not protest and took off with my debit card. When they got back, the pizzas were still warm and smelled appetizing. I had the table set up for them. Before they started eating, I wondered if Hans could join them?! They were very good about that as Hans had just come back from all the Hockey stuff and was super hungry!! Then, ASid asked me to join them as well. In spite of how oblivious he is most of the times, the boy had ordered half a pizza with my favourite vegetarian toppings. He was like "Mom, you got to eat lunch too!"

Even today, he thanked me for letting his friends come over to work on their group project. Who is this boy?!

At dinner, this evening, he shared the second thing I want to record for the future.

Apparently he put together a 29 page document filled with his Math notes as part of his exam prep. The Math text book is somewhere between 600 and 700 pages. He spent a few hours working on this. And then he decided to post it for all his friends and classmates to use.

This is the same boy who complained about 4 years ago that I was sabotaging his chances by sharing information with other parents. And the fact is that he has been doing miserably in Math this semester. Wouldn't he want to have an edge and keep away such useful information from the competition?! Apparently not!! Who is this boy?!

This boy is my boy and I am so glad he is my boy. He is a work in progress and he is coming along very well. On Sunday, I actually interrupted the group once to correct some grammar or sentence structure stuff. If I hear a mistake, I have to jump in. Natural and normal instincts of a mom and a teacher! ASid did not mind at all and in fact, he got me to read the entire document. When I got through it and gave him some feedback, he apologized for disappointing me. One of his friends heard him and asked incredulously, "Did you just apologize to your mom for being a disappointment?!"

There is absolutely no disappointment with this boy, just pride and a ton of it.