10. If you hear a puppy crying in the breezeway all night, and you don't own a puppy, you do now.
9. If the ceiling suddenly starts springing water, and plaster lands at your feet, your son has left the water running in the upstairs sink (again).
8. If you spot your son's teacher at the grocery and she looks at you blankly when you gush about the award she just gave him...he forged it.
7. If you call your own phone number only to get a recording of a youthful voice explaining that when his parents "get out" "from serving 8-10" he will have them return the call...count to 10010 before going home.
6. If your daughter swears up and down the kitty you finally allowed her to adopt from her little friend at school is a BOY kitten....check it out before the mother of the little friend you don't know drives off.
5. If you THOUGHT you were seeing things....there MIGHT be a mouse in the house...but there could not possibly be multiple WHITE mice.... you probably are not seeing things. Check with your eldest son. (Remember that community play he was in at Halloween? Remember what they used as props, caged of course? Well...after the play...they had to go somewhere....)
4. Never ever tell that same son to load the dishwasher without explaining the differences in detergents...not unless you want to wade through three feet of bubbles in your kitchen floor.
3. Remember that same son? Remember that weird sound you heard overhead? Yeah, he was riding his bicycle off the second story roof. His siblings will tell you about it in about ten years.
2. If your fifty foot pine tree is swaying in the wind...but there is no wind...check and see where four of your children are.
1. Do not lose your mind. Sons (and daughters) more often than not have a way of growing up, becoming (hopefully) responsible citizens, and apologizing for all the gray hairs they gave you (of course they are laughing as they do so!!! But this time, so are you!!!).
