The Jonas Brothers and Avril Lavigne are coming to town in nine days and yours truly is taking the kiddo and a horde of her friends. That's right, I'm going to risk my hearing and sanity to escort a group of tweens to gaze longingly at the hot boy band of their youth.

Yes, I'm the cool mom. Hayley has been to a number of concerts with me but the past year we've been going to ones she wants to see like Drake Bell, Corbin Bleu, Ally & AJ and Gwen Stefani.

I love sitting outside on the lawn, relaxing to good music. It is far scarier than I remember when you are in charge of your child and others but at least there is a family section on the lawn. We sit there so I won't have to go through the routine I did at Steely Dan telling the guys in front of us to stop smoking copious amounts of weed so close to us that my daughter would have a contact buzz.

I'm already preparing for the big event. I'm having random people scream into my ears for extended periods of time and I'm herding squirrels.