Prison Pants or Pajamas?

Mitchell is enjoying his senior year of high school and all the perks that go with it.  However, by the time a kid's taken all the required classes to graduate, there's always holes in their schedule they have to fill up in order to acquire the exact amount of class hours they need to have. That's when a high-schooler ends up taking whatever class is easy and available.  In Mitchell's case, he's now taking a sewing class.

His latest class assignment was to sew pajamas.  The kid had to actually drive himself to a fabric shop and buy all the stuff for his project.  I can just imagine the conversation he had with his buddies when they asked if they could hang out after school and he had to tell them he couldn't because he was headed to JoAnn's Fabrics for some thread and flannel.

And here's what happens when you combine a pajama project with Mitchell's favorite color orange...

Prison Pants!

You'll notice he didn't exactly volunteer for this photo.  In fact he's been complaining that kids and adults often make remarks about blog posts he tragically gets to star in.  He says it's like living with paparazzi in his own house.  That's when I explained to him that some kids have mothers that badger them, others have mothers that blog them.  It's just pitfalls of not being able to pick your parents.

Recently I've been trying to get him to go out and weed-wack along the roadway of our property in his new pajamas.  I think he looks like those inmates you see along our Oregon highways cleaning, mowing, and weed-wacking.  I think it would add a little intrigue to have our neighbors think we've hired out our yard work to a criminal.  Keep the neighbors guessing.  So far, no amount of money seems to lure him into actually doing it.

Mitchell on the other hand just wants to get through this sewing class, graduate, and move far far away from his mother's blog.