This morning I woke up at 6 to bring Joe to school. This is sort of a sibling bonding event. I don't have to bring him, I just like to cause you know, I miss him and stuff like that. Evidently Texas is bound and determined to look just like London for all intensive purposes seeing as one can not see beyond the fog and rain. So, Joe and I kind of argued over the radio stations cause thats what we do. Then dropped him off at school.

Heres this new development: Joseph has a girlfriend. We don't know who she is, but he seems to like her a lot if number of text messages is any indication. Anyway, she doesn't have a facebook so we can't stalk her and he hasn't shown us a picture of her except Mom stalked his phone and found one. Anyway, he naturally has to get her a Christmas present which I hear is a difficult thing for a boy to do for a girl--so many choices. So I told him I would bring him to the mall and I wanted mom to join us so we could do a little shopping in the mean time. So out we venture to find a present for this girl, whose name is Anne. Anne's friend, who is a nameless girl, told Joe that Anne would like jewelry from either JCREW or Juicy Couture which I can't even spell, shows what I know. Joseph didn't know that they don't sell jewelry at JCREW until we got there and he immediately realized this so we headed to James Avery.

Now my mom has been making a lot of comments pertaining to this girl including: "Joseph ALOT of people commented on your relationship status on facebook!" and then probably most offensively "Its probably not even going to last that long" which offended Joe, who is in 8th grade. You know how it is. So we get to the store and my mom is giving him advice. I mean, Mom knows a lot about jewelry. He should really lend an ear her way, but he's kind of embarrassed by her comments and would rather listen to me (I know much less about jewelry). So I find this rose necklace that I personally like and show it to Joe. Mom comes over. We ask her what she thinks. I just think the dialogue that followed was hilarious.

Mom: Well I don't know. I don't know this girl. What kind of clothes does she wear. Do you know.

Joe: Yeah, I know.

Mom: Well, what kind?

Joe: I don't know.

Mom: This is a delicate piece of jewelry. Is she delicate?

Joe: (runs boths hands over hair and face in embarrassed frustration) I don't know Mom, delicate isn't even a part of my vocabulary!

Then we went to Cheesecake for dinner. Next we came home. Caroline and I watched country music videos and then me and Joe read A Christmas Carol aloud to each other because he has a test on it tomorrow. It was a good day.