Another Monday

Hi everyone, just checking in briefly. The Christian Music Day concert was awesome. Toby Mac's performance was the most entertaining, by far, and kept Hannah jumping up and down on top of her seat the entire time. It was a HOT day, well into the 90's. I was asking myself, "isn't this the last day of summer? Shouldn't it be cooling off here 'up north'?" It started to cool off when we came back from the beach, but this weekend brought the heat again. It's 95 today. Ick. Relient K sang most of my favorite songs. Even with them being a current favorite of mine, they were the 4th of 4 bands and we were kind of spent by then.

Hannah's having a good homework day. Brought everything home, praise God. Started into it all on her own and is still working diligently. That was a refreshing sight. Yesterday, I was on the way to the pool with her when I realized she had a big flower sort of thing drawn on her back. Her friend put it there. That meant she had to go back upstairs and she was done for the night. We have a rule about not drawing on anything other than paper. Ugh. So, having her more on target today was just a blessing.

She has been crying and stressing over her upcoming black belt test again. I am almost to the point where I am counting the days until we can put the whole ordeal behind us. She will continue to go on Tuesdays, but I think she will start enjoying it again when she doesn't have the pressure on her continually. Trust me, I AM counting down... Please don't ask her about it either, it will inevitably end with her in tears at some point. She's an emotional, pre-teenaged hormonal wreck.

She enjoyed rock climbing on Friday. She was initially paired with a boy who appeared to be close to her age (more boys are there than girls to begin with). When I mentioned that he seemed nice, she informed me that S#@ is her boyfriend and that back up boyfriends are a bad idea (S#@ is her little "love interest" from our cruise last Thanksgiving, yes, they still e-mail and IM each other). I asked her why and she said that it causes nothing but trouble, she told me that some girls have a "back up boyfriend" in case things don't work out with one, so they will still have one. BUT, if the two boys find out, of worse yet, if they happen to be friends and happen to say, "Guess who my girlfriend is..." nothing good can come of that, so she will NEVER have a back up boyfriend, she is happy with S#@. I don't know whether to be proud or frightened by that little commentary.

When Toby Mac was introducing his song "Gone" he was explaining that single ladies in the audience need to make sure that the boys trying to date them are chasing after God's own heart first, before they give them the time of day. Hannah refused to give a shout out as being a single lady because she has S#@. Brother.

We have heard all of the boyfriend/girlfriend drama since she entered kindergarten (despite US sheltering her) so I guess if she is going to latch on to the notion of a boyfriend, I'd rather it be someone in a far away state who does have a Christian home, good grades, and some of the naivete that Hannah does. If she will just keep up this pen pal "dating" thing until she has graduated from college, that would be ideal.