The Big Event of today was that Big girl got to have a parent visit! She has been sooooooo missing her parents and worrying about them. Tim said she cried in the car on the way home, but she told me before she went to sleep tonight that she thinks she'll sleep much better now that she has seen for herself that they're okay. And I'm sure it won't hurt that they brought her her teddy bear that she's had since she was a toddler. We all went to drop her off, so we got to meet her parents briefly. They were very nice to us, but of course mostly excited to see their daughter! Big girl had collected a whole assortment of gifts to bring to her parents, including: a small hydrangea bush, a Mother's Day card, two paintings, the glass boot mug that she won at the church Ladies Dinner, a can of sardines (that she had picked out as a snack for herself, but I guess she decided she wanted to give her dad a present more than she wanted to eat them), and four photos that I had taken of her over the last few days and printed out. I had thought Big girl might be in manic mode when she came back from her visit, but she was actually pretty subdued. She and Tim and Esther played boat with legos in the basement while I made dinner, and after dinner the three of them went outside for a few minutes while I got ready for icing cookies. Then we iced until bedtime. We didn't finish that many, but since they got to bed so late last night I made sure they got to bed in time to catch up on their sleep tonight!
And now I have to figure out how to tell Big girl that she won't be allowed on Facebook any more. She may well feel betrayed, since she told me so confidingly about her account, and I hate that! But she isn't even old enough to legally have an account, and there are all kinds of reasons why it's not a good idea for her to be using one. (She hasn't gotten on it this week, since she uses her DS to do so and its battery has died. At least, I think she hasn't gotten on it this week--she was telling me today about something that she saw on another child's Facebook page on their DS at school. Apparently, monitoring tweens' internet use is no simple undertaking!)
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I wish everyone would adhere to the fb age rule. I'm not going to set an example to disregard rules when it clearly states the age requirements (meaning you are knowing allowing your children to lie or you are lying when you/they sign up). But, when my 12 yr old daughter says "but everyone else has one", she might very well be almost right! Harder for her.
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