Monkey came home last week with a note filled with hearts and confessions of undieing love.  When I grilled her about the details we chatted, she informed me that they were just best friends.

Best Friends? I thought.  They’ve only been in school together for a week.

I asked her for his name and she told me it was Colon.  Colon? No way.  Did my daughter become BFF’s with someone who’s named after a not-so-popular body part?!  I assured her there was no way that was his name, but she insisted so I went with it.  She does go to a hippie school, after all. (more…)

I am not sure if any of you know this about me, but when I was little, I was in a lot of parades.  I started cheerleading when I was 3 (hey, it was Texas!) and I was also in baton, so needless to say … parades were part of our summers!

I was so excited about Monkey being in her first parade last weekend.  She is in her first year of cheer, and I knew they weren’t making the little ones walk/perform in the parade, but I couldn’t wait to see her waving and shaking her little pom-poms.

Look at how cute she looks!  Makes mama proud.

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