My Sweet Tween ♥

My girl is in junior high now. I have a hard time just typing that. It really did not set in much with me. I mean, she went to school in September, she went to grade 7, yeah I knew it was junior high but it did not really scream junior high.

She is in a Special Ed class and she is also about 4 years delayed (she works at the rate more like a 7-8 year old) so none of this was really REAL junior high. She doesn't care for boys, there is no tolerance for bullying in her class. They just do their work and have a fun time.

Then her agenda came home Monday with a note saying "School Dance! Friday! $3.oo" and she was a little excited about it. "HOLY SHIT! My baby is going to a school dance! What the fuck?!" was pretty much the reaction my brain had.

Monday night I asked her about the dance and if she wanted to go. She shrugged and said she did not know. I asked her why and she said "well.. what do you do? where is it?" so I explained to her that it is usually in the gym and they have party lights and loud music and it is fun. That seemed like a good enough answer so she let it be.

Tonight we talked about it some more. She said that she doesn't know about going and if there is a movie somewhere, she would rather do that. I told her to ask one of her friends in class if they are going and could she hang out with them if she is shy and unsure.

That is when she said 'well Jeffry already asked me to go and I told him no'

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*snickers*

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My girl turned down a boy. I find it funny and sad all at the same time. Now granted, this little boy is a sweet boy. He and Speedy have been together since Grade 3 so he knows her. I don't know if he was asking her so much as a date to the dance rather then just a buddy to hang out with. I explained to her that it is ok to go to the dance with him because that does not mean they have to slow dance together. It just means that they can hang out and have a fun time.

So now she is thinking about changing her flat out no to a possible "ok but we are not slow dancing cause that is gross"

Man. I swear just yesterday she was a little cooing butterball searching for her next meal at the boob buffet. How did this happen so fast.