Austin Update....

I am writing to document the craziness and insanity that I must deal with everyday only because I am the mother to one crazy, insane, 6ft tall, 16 year old named.....AUSTIN!

 I am only blogging about this morning's episode.
I will not go into the multiple, in-depth conversation we had about why we can't just stop making our house payment and keep the money in a high yielding CD and then catch the payment up right before our house is foreclosed on. Or the discovery of the stock market and how he has found the answer to not working.....invest in the stock market! (Except he overlooked the need for the initial $200K to make his plan work!) All these financial questions and discussions we can thank his financial literacy class for. It's really got his brain a whirling. However, I have expressed my concern that I do hope he doesn't go to prison anytime in his life as most of his financial wizard- like ideas - all though enterprising and thought provoking, are basically unethical, illegal and dishonest!
So, back to this morning.
I had to keep reminding Austin to be quite during scriptures. (We listen to them online while I pack lunches and the kids are suppose to be eating breakfast - usually they're just laying around waiting for breakfast to magically appear or rummaging for something in the fridge that is anything but breakfast food - but regardless, they are suppose to be quiet and listen. No talking during scriptures!) Austin wasn't talking, he was SINGING.
He sings all the time.
He's in choir so sometimes it's a chorus of something he's learning in choir, or something thats stuck in his head, and often times it's more like sound effects rather than singing....beat boxing is what he calls it. (I call it spitty, mouth noise.) Anyway, he keeps breaking into song during scriptures so after scriptures are over, I mention that since he is in such good voice this morning he can say the prayer and he begins to SING the prayer! In a very dramatic and drawn out voice he sings:

Dear Heavenly Father

Thank you for this day

Please bless my grandmother

That she will not pass away.....

Then a chorus of "Because I love her, I love her, I love her."

We are all laughing. Then he actually gives a real prayer, and since we were having issues over who got what Halloween candy in their lunch - with me decreeing that everyone get's what they get and there is no switching or complaining - he prays that everyone will eat the Halloween candy they have been given and at the proper time. 

Good grief!

So as I kiss him goodbye, I ask when he is going to shave again. (I often call him Shaggy-from Scooby Doo - because that's what his chin looks like, sparse but shaggy!) He informs me that he will shave...... at the end of the month. 

Why? I ask.

Because this is NO shave NOvember! 

I am pretty sure this is just and Austin decreed month of no shaving.
Anyone else ever heard of such a  thing?

What the heck?

Then he leaves for school but and comes back in, in need of forks.

Forks?

What for?

For my cake.

What cake?

I bought a cake. It's in my backpack. I'm going to get it out and eat it in seminary with a fork. Then when everyone starts complaining, I'm going to whip out these (and he waves around his fistful of plastic forks) and share it!

Why and how and when and where the cake came to be in his backpack is beyond me. 

Crazy boy.....