Anyway, she and this little boy named Shawn have become friends :) And they talk on the phone every day and email each other and have spent the last two weekends together (supervised - he is a boy after all). And last week, she came home and told me she had had an awesome day and when I asked why she explained that while her and Shawn were wonderful friends outside of school, they didn't really hang out in school.
Basically they way she explained it was that he didn't want everyone thinking that they were "boyfriend and girlfriend". Well Emilee told Shawn that either they were friends or they weren't and she wasn't about to be a "secret" friend. So he could hang out with her in school and out or not at all. And he said ok.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me to have her stand up for herself and know her own worth like that. It makes me very happy and puts a little check mark under my Mommy Column that says Did Something Right.
Labels: Being Mommy, Emilee
