Home > Work > 13 and Counting (Friendship List #3)
1 " We finished seventh grade. We finished our third list. "
― Lisa Greenwald , 13 and Counting (Friendship List #3)
2 " New Ari & Kaylan Friendship List Learn to ride a unicycle Start a movement Figure out how we feel about God Spend more time with Bubbie and Zeyda Perfect the art of persuasion, especially with Kaylan’s mom Train for and run a race Come up with lots of fruit-infused water varieties "
3 " I just don’t need so much stuff. "
4 " Only a woman would be able to handle listening to so many people’s problems all at the same time. "
5 " You’re the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we’d know each other a long time. "
6 " forty-five-year-old dad of three. "
7 " But being the oldest, it’s like, well, of course Ari can handle it. I’m like a miniature grown-up. And I don’t know if I want to be that. No one asked me if I wanted to. It shouldn’t be automatic that the older kid has to shoulder all the heavy stuff and the younger kid just gets to skateboard through life, covered head to toe in helmets and knee pads and elbow pads. "