Chicken, Braces, and American Idol

I've got a big chicken in the oven, and dang if ain't smelling good right now. Trouble is, I'm not exactly sure what spices I threw on it before I put it in the oven. Oh well.
DaddyP and Jack are swimming at the LC right now, so I have a while before I need to finish supper. Speakng of swimming, Jack is up to 50+ laps. 36 laps is a half mile, so he is well on his way to swimming one mile! Can you believe that? PDaddy said he could easily go over 50 laps because everytime they swim, PDaddy has to hold him back from doing more laps. He stopped at 52 last time and begged to go more, but they had already been swimming for quite some time and the elderly class was waiting for the pool lanes to free up. He absolutely is loving it. I'm not loving the 10 year old appetite compounded by the jump start swimming seems to be giving his hunger pains. UG! He is eating us out of house and home...as if he wasn't already. In other Jack related news, we'll be visiting the orthodontist for the first of,what I'm sure is, many future appointments next week. I met a lady the other day who has a girl who was a friend of Jack's when they were younger,and she was telling me that her daughter who is also fixing to be 11 will be getting her braces on soon. Seems like just yesterday they were playing together, and now they're getting braces. Braces are huge, people. That's like up there with the driver's license. Ok, maybe not all that, but hello. Uh, yeah. Serious, serious mama crisis. The fact that I have a child old enough for braces just doesn't even seem right.
The kids finished their homework in my classroom before we left school, so we are all set to do supper, bath, and watch the newest batch of strange people on American Idol. Anyone watching this season? Whaddya think of the new judge?
I'm off to check on the big chicken.