Mother's day

As a parent now I appreciate the difficulties I must have caused a lot more.  Here are some examples of the things that my mother had to deal with.

• As a child I didn't know why I needed to make my bed.  I figured I would just mess it up again in a few hours.  
• Similarly, I didn't understand the importance of dressing up for pictures.  I figured that the reason for taking a picture was so that you could remember what I was like.  Since I didn't dress up normally it followed that you wouldn't want me dressed up for the picture.
• I was an under achiever.  I felt that passing was passing.  A "D" got me through just as well as an "A".
• I thought homework was redundant.
• I always wanted to know why.

This is just a small example.  As you can imagine there was more, a whole frustrating lot more.  Thanks mom for putting up with me!