But Mmmmoooooommmmm everyone else has one!!!

The oomph was knocked out of my sail by 6 grubby hands and 3 perfect smiles!! Sometimes a day will come that starts with so much energy, you feel the downfall almost immediately. Today was a special day in our household. Bryanna, my 12 year old, got a cell phone. Yes... I know... seems a little late these days, but hey... I told her she wasn't going to get one until she was 16. I caved.. i cracked... i gave in ... and what kind of mother does that make me anyway???? THE COOLEST EVER!!! OH YEAH! OH YEAH! OH YEAH!
Okay, maybe not THAT cool. I WAS in fact the last mother on earth to get a phone for her daughter you know. What? You didn't know? WoW! I was tricked! So I have been hearing the complaints and the "this and that" about why i should get her a phone. I have actually been hearing this since i think she was in the 2nd grade to be quite honest with you. I had to listen to the "but mom... so and so has had a phone for this amount of time and why can't I have one because i think i am passed the age where i should have gotten one and is it because you don't trust me because i will be soooooooo good and i will do EVERYTHING you say and i won't ask for anything else as long as i live". (yes... that is exactly how i heard it too) So I broke down, I did it... all the way home I laid down the rules that would be thrown out the princess diva Bryanna's window the moment we got home! UGH! I have threatened to take it away more than half a dozen times already. I am trying to remember what it is like to be her age.... and OH MY GOSH I have to do this 2 more times!! I just opened a box of insanity and there is NO prize at the bottom! Oh wait..... lookie here... it's a box of Insanity with marshmallow chaos in it! Awwwww... and I thought there wouldn't be a surprise! So wrong! I'm sliding down.... here comes the crash... wait for it... wait for it......