Having a ten year old daughter is a challenge to say the least. We seem to have hit this stage where we are trying to find the balance between knowing we are a kid and thinking we are a teen! It is a fine line that all of us have gone through, the problem being that we don't remember those days as clearly as our mothers do!!! The sassy mouth that my sweet little Lady-Bird has astounds me! Once, while instructing her brother as to what he can and can not do....she turned to inform John and I why she had the authority to do so. See, little did I know at the time, when you are ten, and your parents aren't in the room...you get to make all decisions.
Last night, while having the end of the school year talk...who she will miss most and why, what plans she has for her summer, and who is coming to any and all sleepovers she may or may not have depending on her attitude.....she informed me how much she would miss a certain young boy. He is moving to a different middle school next year, and he sweetly wrote in her yearbook, "I am sorry for leaving you." I used my grandmother's old addage...."Boys are like streetcars...wait 15 miutes and another one will be by." To which she looked at me in disgust and said...."You just don't understand sixth grade love, Mom!"
Well Zie, that makes two of us!
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