doing his part to keep me "socially relevant"

After we dropped off the last of his friends,  my oldest turned of his music (rap) and told me he had made me a playlist for the car - music he likes but thought I would also like...he said it was for, "white, middle-aged, suburban ladies who wish to remain socially relevant - mostly indie stuff".  I wanted to hug him and punch him at the same time.  And I kinda wanted to hate it.  But damn, I loved every song.  I didn't know the names of anything, but have heard the songs before and was in music heaven.  So I guess that really is my demographic - he's got me pegged.

The other cool thing that happened was beforehand, one of the rap songs came on and he told his friends he had used it to compare to Cather In The Rye for an essay.  And then they talked about the book!  And I mentioned a newish book, Ten Thousand Saints, that has some similar themes and they said it sounded cool. 

These fleeting moments keep me going, through all the less good parenting moments.