Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Today I did something that I haven't done in a long time. I spent one on one time with my daughter. And it was a blast.

My son's best friend invited him to sleep over tonight. This is my son's first sleepover and to be honest, it couldn't have come at a better time. I am so thankful to our friends for extending the invitation. They are the kind of people I trust implicitly.

Right now my son lives in a world of females. Even the dog is a prissy girl. I think some independent time at his best friend's house with his best friend's family is exactly what he needs. I am very happy for him.

But my daughter? Well, not so much. She has wanted to sleep over a friend's house for years but we've just never gotten around to setting anything up. She's been telling everyone about how her brother is going on his first sleepover and, "He's three years younger than me!"

But I knew that once I picked her up from school (especially at the third grade car pool stop with her friends instead of the Kindergarten car pool stop with her baby brother) that she'd see the advantages of being one little brother short.

First we were able to go to her violin lesson with out her little brother tagging along. Then we headed to Arts on Fire and painted a dog dish as a birthday present for Buffy. Then we had dinner at The Boardwalk. And on a whim, we decided to go to a movie.

We saw The Game Plan starring The Rock. There is some marketing genius out there who realized the best way to get moms to bring their kids to a movie was to put a hot guy in it. (We'll also be seeing Enchanted with Patrick Dempsey this Thanksgiving!)

But this movie was all about fatherhood. I didn't think much about it when I bought the tickets, but by the half way point we both had tears in our eyes. My daughter cried through the whole second half of the movie. She's been doing so well during this deployment that sometimes I forget just how hard it must be on her. She is a sensitive child and a Daddy's girl.

Maybe her mom is a little sensitive too.

All in all, it was wonderful to spend some mother/daughter time with my very special little girl. She's growing up so fast, but she's growing up so well. I couldn't be more proud of her if I tried.