Learning.

I love Alysa.  I love her friends.  I love to let her be herself.  I love her.  

We are both learning.  We are learning how to deal with each other.  We are learning how to be reasonable.  We are learning how to understand.  

It is amazing to have a 13 year old.   I love that I can go snuggle with her the night and force her to talk about school and her friends at school.   We have a lot of learning and growing to do together. 

The other night, she was going to the trampoline park with her friends.  She curled her hair, put on some perfume and came out of her room with a T-shirt and tight volleyball shorts on.  Eric told her they were too tight and she was to go change.   After a fit, she went in her room and came out with the different pants on.  When she came out, I asked her if the shorts were under those pants.  She stormed back to her room to change and stated that she always wore these shorts under these pants.  She then put on some other shorts.  She came out of her room and Eric asked her if the tight shorts were under those shorts.  She said no. I said let me see.  Fancy that.. she had the shorts on under those shorts too.   We made her take them off all together and then told her that she was really close to not going with her friends.   She cried and cried and said that she “deserved” to go with her friends.  Eric actually laughed out loud and then we let her go without the shorts!  

So funny that she actually thought she was so smart to put the pants on over the shorts.  Like we wouldn’t check.  Ha!   So funny.  

She takes so many selfies.  I need to make a move.   I love you Alysa, but you should think before you do things like this.