Scout is mad at me for the first time that I can remember, and she is thirteen years old. I chatted with one of her friends in an im, not telling Scout that I was going to do such, not telling her friend that I was doing such. Scout won't much talk to me, so I don't really know why she is mad, why she is crying, but I assume that it has to do with privacy and trust. I have told her that I was wrong to do it, and that I won't do it again, but this doesn't seem to affect her mood in the short term.

What I said to her pal in the im was "let's go smoke." This thing with Scout's brother, Graem, admitting that he has been smoking has been tearing me up, and though Graem and I seem to have come to an agreement whereby he will stop, I guess I have some lingering feelings on it.

Shoot me dead. Kill me now; I'm not the perfect parent.