What will I do when she is a teenager?

This is the week the stomach virus invaded our home, and I am quite tired of laundry and mopping the floor.  God willing, we are leaving for Egypt today and I hope this bug does not follow us there.  I still have to write my blog about Jerusalem, and then I will have to write one about the pyramids, but I could not resist putting this event into the written form.

Kathleen will be five in a couple of weeks and she goes to the preschool in our neighborhood.  She loves it there and has made many new friends this year.  One little boy is her favorite friend and his mom and I always comment on how cute they are.  On Tuesday I picked Kathleen up from school and she started to tell me how excited she was for Thursday.  When I asked her why she said "that's the day me and my boyfriend are going to sneak into the bathroom at school and KISS!"  I was a bit startled, but when I got myself together I attempted to have a rational conversation about how that was not appropriate at school and her friend's mother might be upset about the kissing.  Kathleen actually argued with me about this and her point was that if mommy and daddy kiss, she can kiss her boyfriend at school that she loves.  I decided to stop the conversation at this point and pray that she forgot about it.  Kathleen has about 100 crazy thoughts per day, and most of them never come to fruition.

Fast forward to Wednesday night.  Jesy was not home so I was being a bad mother and allowing the children to eat dinner in front of the TV.  A light bulb went off in my little girls head and she shouted out to the room, "I forgot.  Tomorrow is the day I am going in the bathroom at school to kiss my boyfriend.  I am so excited!"  I so wish another adult had been present to witness this.  Colin and Amalie just stared at Kathleen.  Seriously, Amalie just looked at her with her mouth hanging open and Colin had a real look of distaste on his face.  Kathleen kept on going on about this while I was trying to discourage it  when Colin finally said to Kathleen "You get arrested if you kiss a kid at school."  I about died laughing and that was the end of the kissing plans.

Update:  On Thursday Kathleen came home and triumphantly announced that she had kissed her friend at school.  I guess the threat of police action could not deter her. 

Good luck Jesy.  In about 7 years life should get even more interesting than it is now.  And remember our girls are only 15 months apart.  As the Russians would say, Ay, yay, yay.  And how I love you Kathleen Marie.