From here a couple of things happened.
Firstly, Jayme and Sean didn't end up going to Classic, they went somewhere else so we didn't get to see them there. Sad.
Secondly, Casidee's friend, D, called and told her that she'd gone to the middle school when she wasn't supposed to and had gotten herself grounded so she could no longer go to Classic. No worries. Cas could just go with me since I was already committed to taking Tay and Cali.
This story gets interesting when we found, after arriving at Classic, that the said friend, D, was there. With other friends, including one of Casidee's bffs, A. Not only had she lied to Cas, and ditched her, but she had walked there and met up with 7th grade boys.
Cas and I had a pretty good heart to heart, sitting right there on a hard bench in an overly loud skating rink.
We decided that even though it sucked, like really sucked (that's 6th grade language), to have been lied to and not been included, Cas had come out on the better end of the situation. And she could see that. The walk from our house to Classic is longer than I would have allowed (three and a half miles, one way... that's too long of walk for a 6th grader in my opinion). Especially in the dark. I would have told Cas no if she'd told me she was walking to Classic with D. When we got there and saw them, we noticed that A was looking pretty miserable. They weren't skating, just walking around with these boys. When A saw that Cas was there, she got some skates and spent the rest of the time with Cas. Cas and I talked about, despite the being left out feeling, would she really have been having fun, now that she could see what D was doing there? No. A wasn't pleased with the situation, and Cas wouldn't have been either. Yes, she was left out, but this way she wasn't stuck being there and doing nothing with boys she didn't know. And I loved that Cas would sit there with me, her nerdy mom,shoulder to shoulder, in front of all those kids, and really talk to me about the situation. And that even though D was there with those boys, Cas and A would come and sit by me in between their skating rounds. I hope this level of relationship will last with my circus.
A ended up telling D that she was going to get a ride home from us. D didn't seem to care. I don't think I'll be letting Cas hang out with D too much in the future. Though I'm thankful to have been able to see that A is a good friend.
The third thing that happened last night was stinking cute Tayler bug got asked to "skate" not once, but twice during the snowball boys choice round. I was sitting on my hard bench when I looked up and spotted Tay making her way around the rink... with a boy. What? Super shy Tay is skating with a boy? I tried not to be the embarrassing mom, and stayed put, but only until after the snowball was done. I called her over when she was skating on her own and asked her if she had been skating with a boy? She denied it and I wondered if I had seen wrong, when a friend of Tay's skates up and blurts out, "she skated with two boys!" Two? I was so floored! My sweet quiet Tay skated with two boys? Tay just grinned. I knew I had seen it! She had been asked by a boy her own age, and by a teenage boy who was being nice and asking littler kids to skate.
How grateful I am that I hung around at Classic last night, instead of just dropping the kids off. I was there to help Cas through a tough friend situation, and I got to be there for a boy moment with Tay. And Cali was full of hugs for me through out the evening.
Nothing can replace time well spent with my circus.
.JPG)
