How time flies... into a jet engine.

[lddurham]

When I first started this journal, my kids were itty bitties and I could watch whatever I wanted, read whatever I wanted, and had no cares in the world. Now, I have my mouse on the minimize button at all times, and have actually yelped and put my hands over the screen when one of them ninja'ed out of the shadows unexpectedly. I've also now come to

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[dixiebell12]

LOLOLO I caught my daughter reading Drarry slash! You should have seen the look on her face when I told her that I had just read the same story the day before :) We now share links *G* Of course my daughter is a lot older than yours, she's 17. I even take her to cons!

I always thought I was weird reading slash, then I found out my daughter reads it and my sister. My sister read Twilight crap though.

Hugs,
Dix

[lddurham]

Oh, that's kind of cool! The mother-daughter bonding, not the Twilight crap.

[auntbijou]

Heh, you know, I'm sort of in the same boat. Well, the Impertinent Daughter knows, and is rather proud of my writing, what little there is of it, and what I've let her read. She knows what yaoi manga is, and has read some of the lighter fare where that's concerned. But the Impossible Son, not so much. And I, too, have learned to hit the "hot corner" on my monitor to blacken the screen when he comes ditty-bopping in (at least he still makes noise, mostly!).

The problem now, though, is the Impertinent One's friends, who come in my room where the main computer is and spot my manga, and being interested in it themselves, start to pick it up and peruse it. The Impertinent One, horrified, usually snatches it away with a, "That's my MOM'S!! Leave it!!"

Which has left them under the impression that I am extremely territorial about MY manga and must be asked first. Needless to say, the yaoi's are now hidden away. *sigh*

What does worry me, though, is Miss Impertinent letting my screen name slip, and one of her friends googling me

[lddurham]

How awesome is that, though? Hearing people discuss your work in RL?! Hats off to you, my friend! That is just wicked cool.

My kids don't know my pen name, yet. And I'll be doing my damndest for them to not find out. They are big blabber mouths and will not bother to not tell people. Adults or other kids, doesn't matter. That's all I need, for them to tell the principals of their schools. I can just see the "Oh, so that's why this kid is in my office all the time. Always knew it came from the mother" looks. Yeesh!

[bellumed]

Hey, I know my dad's FetLife username. So, y'know, it could always be worse.

[lddurham]

Oh! Oh, goodness. Yes, yes, I guess it can always be worse. Yikes! I don't know how many years of therapy I'd have to go through if I knew my dad's... well, anything. He's the guy that works and reads the newspaper and likes pizza and that's it.

[rainien]

I haven't been found out by the kids, but I was found out by my mom once. Bless her, she was looking for something in my room and "accidentally" found my vibrator in the shoebox under my bed.

LOL She actually asked me what the hell it was. I told her it was exactly what it looked like. She asked me where I got "such a thing" and I told her it had been a birthday gift from the man I was dating at the time. This seemed to confuse her quite a bit because she asked me why my "boyfriend" (and shouldn't there be an age restriction applied to that word?) would give me a vibrator. I reminded her that he lived 5 hours away and that was a little far to drive when I was horny.

Thinking about it now, I don't think she's set foot in my bedroom since. :D

[lddurham]

LOL! Oh, man! I have a reversal story. I found my mom's vibrator. Again, it was all her fault for hiding it in some socks, hidden in the bottom of a box in her bottom drawer. (Seriously, I sucked as a teenager, huh? Served me right.) But then she found it in my drawer. Awkward! But, hey, she brought it in the house.

Life lesson: Don't go snooping unless you're prepared for what you'll find. Your mom and me learned our lessons, eh?

[lddurham]

Oh wait. Not that I was using it or anything. I mean, that'd be... No.
I was saving it to show a friend so we could giggle like the know-it-all teens were were, and got busted with it. Heh.

[carvedwood]

I don't have kids, other than Eleven, and she doesn't count because she knows to knock before entering.
Her mother (Red), on the other hand... well, there's a reason Eleven knows to knock first.