Realizing the Value of Money
With Homecomings in the air, I was encouraged by a couple of MOAT kids’ approach to the high school festivity. One of them not only asked a young lady in his grade, but also paid for the entire evening out of his own stash. “How did he get the...
Heard on the Street – EXTREME Pizza
Driving up … a MOAT mom is met by her 9-year-old standing outside the front door shedding crocodile tears. “What happened?” “I can’t tell you. We’ll get in trouble.” That was all she needed to hear. “Tell me now…....
Heard on the Street
In a MOAT home somewhere in Dallas… Mom: “Did you call your uncle and give him your football schedule? He called Sunday to get it. Today is Friday.” Son: “No. … Why would I know to do that?” Mom: “Because I told you. I also...
Brain Cells
Yesterday felt like a Wednesday. It wasn’t. But since I thought it was, my Thursday carpools just weren’t at the front of my brain. Until the phone call from school that I had forgotten one of my loads. This spurred conversation from the one I had...
The Last Word
What is it about a teen and the last word?! Heard in the car on the way to school after a certain teen shrugged off breakfast: Mom: “You’re acting like you want to do well in school with all the studying you’ve been doing.” Kid:...
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