Day 13 Being 13 Sucks

Being 13-years-old SUCKS! Do you know how I know this fact? I live with a 13-year-old. Maybe I should restate my first sentence...let me try again.

Being the mother of a 13-year-old girl sucks. Alright, alright....it isn't that bad. I love her to pieces and I am lucky to have such a loving daughter that is kind, sweet and gentle (to everyone else but me right now....I hear that changes as they grow up).

Today we were set to go to the movies as a family. One second away from leaving, my daughter says "I am not going". I say what all good parents say "oh yes you are"....we go back and forth. Finally I ask her why (probably should have started here) she doesn't want to go?

She tells me that her best friend, who is also our neighbor, has had a fight with her parents (WOW I get that) and needs to talk with her. Can you say DRAMA?

Just about when she told me about her friend.....the door bell rang....and her friend was on our front porch. Instead of telling her to go home, I invited her to go to the movies with us...all expenses paid. Look this might not seem kind to you but you try being with two hormonal teen girls for the afternoon...neither of them happy with their parents.

I scooped up both girls (with parental permission) and my boy and we headed to see The Princess and The Frog. I showered them all, especially the sad neighbor girl, with whoopers, skittles and popcorn. All was made right in the world of the teenage girls...for the moment until the next drama erupts......

I learned that even though something might be inconveinent, and slightly more costly, a small act such as taking someone to the movies can change the course of an evening, a mood, and a situation.

On a side note:
During the movie the princess said to the frog "you get back what you give". I wonder if it is true?