Broken Hearts and Big Rigs

Last night was the middle school's Valentine's Dance. Since she was queen last year, Husband's cousin Beffie had to go and crown this year's queen. Baby Girl found out this involved a crown and we simply had to go see her off. #1 Son was thrilled with this arrangement because he's decided Beffie is his girlfriend (not to mention her brother J is the coolest person in the world as far as my kids are concerned).

We got to their house in the middle of the hair fixing. If you've spent much time around 14 year old girls you know that this is a very involved process. Her older sister R.A. was curling her hair and applying copious amounts of hairspray. If anyone would've lit a match, Beffie's head would have gone up like Michael Jackson filming that Pepsi commercial. The effort was well worth it, she looked beautiful.

In the meantime her new boyfriend came to the house to go to the dance with her family. This was the first time the kids and I have met him. He's a nice kid and fit right in like he belonged there. I warned him early on that my oldest son had laid claim to Beffie and might not take to kindly to Boyfriend honing in on his territory. As we sat down to eat Pizza, #1 Son finally noticed the presence of the intruder. He looked at Boyfriend, squinted his eyes suspiciously, and said, "Mommy, who he?" I said, "That's (insert name here). He's Beffie's friend." Notice I did not use the word "boy" as I was trying to avoid disharmony. #1 Son promptly says, "NO! HER MY GIRLFRIEND!" And began glaring at Boyfriend over his pizza. Boyfriend asked #1 Son if he wanted to wrestle for her. #1 Son declined, much to my surprise. He's always up for a good fight. I think he was just unsure about winning this one.

When we got home he was still insistent that Beffie was his girlfriend and he wasn't sharing her. He told his dad this morning that he "tried and tried to fight" Boyfriend but he just couldn't do it.

After that big adventure we came home just in time to watch Trick My Truck on CMT. It's their answer to MTV's Pimp My Ride. They take a Semi from some unsuspecting trucker and fix it up. Baby Girl was enthralled. She watched with bated breath as they fixed up a truck to resemble a ranch and bunkhouse. When they brought in the owner she was positively bouncing! I said that was a really nice truck. Baby Girl said, "No, that's not really nice, it's WONDERFUL! It looks like a dream!" I never knew she was so passionate about big rigs. It must be in her blood.