Communication and teenagers do not mix

My three children are all adults now. They are relatively successful people.

My clients are almost all teenagers.  Overall, I think I work well with them.

My nephew is fifteen. He is my late sister’s son. He and his father live half a continent away.

Over the holidays, my brother-in-law and nephew came and stayed with us. We had various other family members staying here off and on throughout the holiday.  My nephew slept in various areas of the house, depending upon which room had an open bed or other place to sleep.  He was a good sport about being the one bumped if there was an adult who needed a bed.  He is not a little guy, either. He is now about 6′ 2″. But in our family, that’s nothing.

When my husband went to clean up the basement bedroom yesterday, he found a pair of jeans. These were the jeans that I’d given him for Christmas. They were still in the plastic shipping bag.  He had worn the sweatshirt I gave him. He hardly ever took it off as a matter of fact.  But apparently he’d never taken the jeans out of the box. The sweatshirt was on top of the jeans in the box.

So, tonight I have been texting him, to see if he just forgot the jeans, or if he didn’t like them.  No big deal either way. just want to know. I am not big on texting. I really only do it with him. He doesn’t like to talk on the phone, and I do what it takes to keep in touch.  I don’t have a keyboard on my phone, so it is challenging to do much texting with this phone. He is almost always texting more than one person at a time, so he often can’t keep track of who he is talking to on each text.

Over the course of about an hour, with 14 text messages, it has finally been clarified that I should mail them to him. 

Somehow, I think there must have been an easier way to get to that point.

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