Lori, Rooney & Zuzu's Blog – May 2012 Archive (2)

The teenagers are home today.

Somehow that always puts me in mind of Paul Revere's Ride and want to shout, "The Teenagers are Coming! The Teenagers are Coming!" While generally they are pleasant lads... they do come with some baggage...mainly in the way of noisiness, large quantities of food consumption and messes.

Truthfully though, I enjoy having my kids home and actually look forward to their days off from school.  I am as excited about the countdown to summer vacation as…

I did it.

I gave Rooney a haircut.

What on earth has come over me? Add this to the list of things that will surely be brought up at my Intervention.  In 17 years of parenting I have never once entertained the idea of giving one of my children a haircut.  Even when my daughter wasn't sporting more than 25 hairs on her head, I still took her to a professional. And, you may not have heard, but there are professionals available and willing to give your dog a haircut.…