Karma

I must confess...I am a complete moron. I should have known better than to open my mouth. It's not like I am a novice at this.....I have been doing it for over 20 years. You would think that at some point during those 20+ years of raising kids I would have known that Karma will smack you down quicker than any virus and leave you wondering what the hell just happened.

I was talking to a friend the other day about our kids. We speak often about the trials and tribulations of teenagers and often shake our heads at the lunacy of our offspring and how they seem to think we know nothing about anything. During this conversation she brought up the fact that her daughter kept losing stuff. Not cheap stuff, no. Expensive stuff. Things that cost quite a bit of money and she was mad. I couldn't blame her honestly, I would have been pissed too.

Throughout the past year I have been mad at Cody for a variety of reasons but not one of them was him losing anything. Well, except his homework and that was a totally different problem stemming from the fact that, well at 14 he sometimes just isn't really that bright.

Anyway, I sympathized with her and actually uttered the words. Out loud. For Karma to hear. Like a moron.

I told her that wasn't a problem that I have had to deal with. That surprisingly enough, Cody has been pretty responsible with his things. I know, dumb right? You know where this is headed.

Yesterday I walked into Cody's room for something, I don't know what. I glanced over at his Ipod charger and it wasn't on there. And then I realized that it had been literally weeks since the last time he asked me to download a song, or an app.

And then I knew.

I asked him where his Ipod was, knowing full well what the answer would be. He looked up at me with the deer in the headlights look that all teenagers get when they know they have been busted about something. And with a look of resignation on his sad little face told me that it had been stolen. When he took it to school. After he was told not to take it to school. Because it could get stolen. Sigh.

I am such a moron.