Reminiscing

I was just looking through blog posts and the song "Popular" came on from Wicked.  It immediately took me back to the time Kadie and I went and saw Wicked.  I can't believe that was over a year ago...  Almost a year and a half!

It kind of made my heart sink a little because all of a sudden I feel like Kadie is getting older and grown up too fast.

Did I write about her crush yet?  Nope...let me fill you in.

I pull up in front of the school to pick up Kadie.  She runs over pulling her rolling backback and stops right outside the car and stares at me through the window with the SADDEST look on her face.  When she gets in she starts to cry.  I asked, "What's wrong?"  Then Kadie (in the highest most sad voice) says, "I will tell you when I'm ready" (sniff).

When we were about home she turns to me and says "OK, I'm ready"
{GULP} I am thinking that maybe I am not ready to hear it...was she in trouble?  Did she get bullied?  Who is the bully?  If it is those same stinkin' kids from last year they will have something coming to them...

Then Kadie (again in the highest most sad voice ever) says, "I wrote a love note and some boys took it away!  Do I have to go to school tomorrow?  They will tease me!"  She was so sad and serious at the same time.

Love note?  LOVE NOTE?  Kadie wrote a LOVE note?  What?

Luckily her friend Natasha saved the day when she stole the note back before the boys read the entire thing.

It said:

"Dear Jack,

I really like your handwriting.
I sort of have a crush on you.
Do you have a crush on me?

Love Kadie

Yes or No?"

Seriously, it was so cute.  It was written on a yellow post-it.  I wish I still had it to show her when she gets older.  And though it was cute, it did scare me a little.  Boys?  Already?  Holy Moly teen years are just around the corner.  I do remember first "go-ing" with a boy in 3rd grade.  But this really crept up on me.

The thing that bugs me is that I want to slow things down but they just seem to keep speeding up.  If anyone figures out how to slow down life {almost to a stand-still} just until I am ready to move to the next phase, please let me know!