I mean, I haven't written here for six years but it's funny to me, in the previous post I was talking about my kids doing more housework and guess what - they don't do any! Still the worst! Last night Mike made chicken parm for dinner, we had it with spaghetti and salad and garlic bread and it was super good.  I cleaned up afterward and everyone drifted away and then I realized there was still stuff on the table! It's so depressing to me, everyone leaves me and doesn't even clear the damned salad off of the table, or their glass.  Unfairness abounds.  

Maria is still a great girl.  She still is a busy person, but she doesn't bound out of bed like she used to.  She has been driving since April, she is doing really well.  She has good friends, a nice boyfriend, she is as involved as ever in everything.  It's hard for me to believe she'll be a senior in high school next year, that next year this time, we will be past her last musical in high school, getting ready for her last holiday concert, etc.  I wish she studied more, I hate for her to be surprised in college at the amount of work there is.  She really seems to glide through life, so far so good.  One thing that is new this year is that she drives Anthony home two days a week and that has been really nice.  It's easier on us, for sure, but also it's just nice that they are doing something together.  

I was just thinking if I post today and wait six years to post again, Maria will be almost 23 years old! I am really getting ahead of myself, ha ha, it's hard for me to believe she will be 17 in just seven weeks.  I know it's seven weeks because my friend Emily's daughter just had a birthday and I always remember when friends had babies before me, I am always so jealous of them ha ha! 

Maria has a duet tonight, singing with her friend SJ.  Santa Baby? Or something, it's not the Eartha Kitt Santa Baby, it's a duet between ... oh two screaming singers, Kelly Clarkson and someone? Oh lord I don't know, is the fact.  But she is exciting and she has been practicing a lot.  I hope it all goes well, you know, she is a very capable person but sometimes I can still see how little she is.  Wish us luck!