Free At Last!
8/11/10 15:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsAvocado had her braces removed this morning! The orthodontist's office gave her a goodie bag of formerly proscribed candy--taffy and bubblegum and such--and a couple of balloons (I thought that was pretty sweet--they didn't do it for her sister when she was liberated from her hardware). She stopped off to drop the pelf and gave me the biggest grin imaginable, with no light glinting off her smile.
In other news: adulthood is a process, not a hard-and-fast arrival. We got the kid a "teen account" with her own ATM card, in order to give her her allowance by check and hold the line, disbursements-wise. Of course, she saw it all in terms of using the debit feature. She immediately forgot her pin and didn't own up to it until this morning, when I pointed out that her allowance check had been sitting on the dining table for a week now.
My new motto: there is nothing adorable about incompetence or feeling that someone else will take care of it. Whatever it is.
In other news: adulthood is a process, not a hard-and-fast arrival. We got the kid a "teen account" with her own ATM card, in order to give her her allowance by check and hold the line, disbursements-wise. Of course, she saw it all in terms of using the debit feature. She immediately forgot her pin and didn't own up to it until this morning, when I pointed out that her allowance check had been sitting on the dining table for a week now.
My new motto: there is nothing adorable about incompetence or feeling that someone else will take care of it. Whatever it is.