Dejavu!!!
Last night i had such flashbacks from being in Middle School.. i was a chaperone at Bradley's activity night. Bradley was slightly mortified at the prospect of this kept asking "do i have to stay around you?" of coarse not was my response and lucky for him i was assigned where he didn't go all night.. First let me say that this i do like the middle school and the administration..

They do these Activity nights where they do carnival type games in some of the classrooms for the first 90 minutes then they have a dance for the last hour.. well it's become evedent that we had to come up with some family policy regarding school dances and we decided 11 was just too young so Brad (and the rest of the kids) won't be attending school dances until they are 14 it made since due to thats when they can go to Church dances so, its actually a little stricter than my parents were (i know shock hua!) i was allowed in 7th grade.. but this feels right.. so that whole long explination was that our compromise was Brad can go to the game portion of activity night and we will pick him up before the dance starts.. this worked out beautifully since i was chaperoning just the activity portion of the night..

back to the dejavu portion of my evening.. i was assigned to the Gym, where they had basketball and volleyball during the rest of the carnival type games.. my job was to 1 make sure no food or drink came into the gym (the floor was just re-done for the new tenant that will be moving in when we switch to our new school in March).. and 2 to make sure no one killed each other while they played basketball on 3 different courts.. (ok i didn't have to watch 3 courts, there were other parents, i was mostly a hall monitor making sure everyone played nice).. but my "i've been here before" moment was i saw this very cute blonde girl playing with the boys.. seems that was the story of my life in middle school.. i played basketball, tried to play basketball but never made the team so i kept score but hanging with the girls never really intersted me.. i mean i had girlfriends but i seemed to always gravitate to the boys playing volleyball or basketball.. now this girl was far more with it than i ever was in middle school if i had to guess she was an 8th grader with her hip-hugger jeans i didn't really find my clothing style until long after i was married..
Now of coarse i would never mention to this cute girl that she was me 20+ years ago she would be mortified but i just had to grin a little and know times really havn't changed so much..
as for Bradley he was in the library playing video games all night.. he wasn't particularly upset about leaving before the dance so thats good i guess..
so how did i get to this place where i'm a chaperone for my middle school son's activity night... thats for old fogie's... lump me in now i guess!!!
ta ta for now