My sister is going to New York for a week next Friday. The kids here get 10 days off for a Kuwaiti holiday (!) so she’s off to meet up with some of the girls she paged with last summer.
Uh- how come our parents never let us do stuff like that when we were teens? I swear the first child is just a test run!

Oh! You are not kidding!! I am the oldest of 4, and the youngest two got EVERYTHING!!! My dad was so lax with them, and I got in trouble for everything, and never got to do ANYTHING!! They always had their boyfriends over on week nights, got to go out multiple times a week, didn’t have to share cars with one another… the list goes on and on… and CELL PHONES!! You are too young to complain to about this, but I DID not have a cell phone (heck, my dad didn’t even have one then) when I was in HS… but my sisters did!! I got 1 hour of phone time a day at home and that was it. They got their own phone number!! UGH!! Can you tell I am just a little bitter about this?? Just a little.