If you're old enough to buy porn you're old enough to fill out a form...

Lately my mom has been driving me crazy. She's been in full on "nesting" mode since my little brother started his senior year of high school. She calls me 4 times before 11:30 in the morning when she's off work, insisted on driving me to the doctor (when I capable of doing so myself), and calls every evening to tell me how her day went and ask about mine. Generally, I don't have time for her recaps so I just put my phone on speaker while I do work around my room. I don't have the heart to tell her I don't have time for it, and lately it has been nice to have the human contact so I listen to all the mundane stories. I'm starting to understand how/why husband's come home from and what their wifes tell them (read: ramble on about) goes in one ear and out the other.

I've talked to my brother and he has complained the same things and how she's been "micromanaging" everything he does lately. I didn't believe it until I overheard a phone call from her in which she asked about no less then 25 things regarding whether he'd finished them yet.

While I reaped the benefits of the over mothering in the forms of soup delivered from Panera and her picking up and paying for my prescriptions. My brother has received an even bigger benefit. And I must say I am a little annoyed about it.

She's been filling out all his Financial Aid forms for college. Apparently there is some 15 page form in addition to the FAFSA that now must be filled out and I just got off the phone with my mom who was complaining she'd be spending all day tomorrow filling it out. I've now filled out 5 FAFSA forms and I personally believe that every college student should have to struggle over their own forms. As if it's not bad enough she's doing the work for him, I am the one listening to her complain about having to do so while he's out with his friends. He's going to be 18 in 2 weeks and I'm starting to think he'd never filled out a form in his life besides the actually college applications, I know for a fact she filled out his Prep School application and I'm sure she's done every other form of that sort.

I personally like that I've always handled these types of things on my own so I know they're handled correctly. My brother seems to prefer to just assume my mom is handling them. So I started thinking and I'm wondering if this is something that mothers do for their sons or if it's just that my mom dotes on my brother since she always has had a tendency to.