There is always something to worry about with kids, always something crazy happening. Tonight it was Jake that kept me up all night. It was after his graduation party, after we had all gone to bed. Jayden was in her room sleeping and heard Jake pull quietly out of the driveway well after midnight. She came in and woke me up. I watched on the phone app as he was moving farther away. I called Jake and he explained. One friend called him concerned about another friend of theirs who his girlfriend broke up with him. The friend had been drinking way too much, and was now driving to Oklahoma to find the girl. He was extremely intoxicated and the boys were talking to him on the phone convincing him to pull over and they would come get him. Jake decided he needed to save his friend from hurting himself, another driver, or getting an OWI. I was torn, here it was in the middle of the night, after midnight and Jake snuck out without telling anyone. For that I was not impressed. The fact that he wanted to help his friend, how could I say no. It wasn't Jake's responsibility to be the boys parent, or save him from a bad situation, yet wanting too look out for his friend was very thoughtful and mature. I told him to contact me when he got to the boy and then come home. He was supposed to be an hour away. Before long his app was showing him going farther and farther south. Apparently his friend wouldn't stay put. I called and talked to him a few more times and watched the map on and off until around 3 and 4 am. I am really not sure what happened the rest of the evening, but he didn't get in until 7am. I had lots of questions. I understood his goal in helping his friend, but he drove almost to the border and was up all night. I wasn't happy with the way things went and was worried he would get himself in trouble. He did in fact get pulled over at one point and let off. I got him up at 9am to help with graduation clean up. We talked more about it later, but we all lost a lot of sleep over it.
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