Holy Christopher

Make sure you are sitting down....I came home from grocery shopping and Brendan, 15 mind you, told me he had started the washer and done his own load of laundry. I was shocked and appreciative all at once. Wow-parenting is working to some degree...he didn't even ask for money!

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