Life...

• Parents suck
• unless you are the parent that she doesn't live with, then you may be exempt from sucking
• rules suck
• all of them
• especially the ones about the amount of time one can't play on the iPod touch that the other {much cooler} parent bought her for christmas
• Chores suck
• but pocket money is expected. for nothing. always
• school is ok
• her teacher this year "is so cool, she even has the game sequence in the classroom"
• even though the sucky parents bought sequence over the summer, doesn't make them cool

Ah yes... Parenting a pre-teen {or tween} is not always easy... but you just gotta love em right...?