A little bet

I am at my wits end, and when a person is at their wits end they do ANYTHING to find a solution to the problem. I know that my child will read this, so I will not go into too many details for fear that she will be forever mad at me and never speak to me again. Let's just say that she has discovered the male spieces, yep, that is right. Let me remind you that she is only a 5th grader. Well her teacher has contacted us about some letters that were being passed back and forth between her and another student ( a male one). In the letter she expressed interest in kissing. I was stunned! What happened to my sweet little innocent baby girl? My first impulse was to yank her out of school and home school her, but really will solve anything? So I came up with another plan....the bet.
The conversation went as follows
Me: Sienna why do you want to kiss a boy
Sienna: What?! I don't
Me: Then why did you write that in your letter to ......?
Sienna: Mom that was an April Fools joke!
(RIGHT!)
Me: Sienna you shouldn't even be thinking about that until you are old enough to date....which is 16.
Sienna: Whatever
Me: I want to make a deal with you... if you can make it to 16 WITHOUT kissing a boy then I will give you $1,000
Sienna: DEAL (said without ANY hesitation)
Me: No cheating on this, because I will know if you break your end of the deal
Sienna: How will you know?
Me: I'm your mom and I just will know. Now shake on it.
And with that our deal was sealed. I fully intend to uphold my end of the bargain and she seems pretty excited to uphold her end. (at least for now!)
I already have my speech prepared for the next time she likes someone, I will say to her "Sienna is he REALLY worth $1,000?"
Wish me luck!

HYPOTHESIS??? Can you tell me what that means?

HOMEWORK?! REALLY! Nobody told me when I graduated from school that I would someday have to RELIVE some of the DREADED grade school assignments like studying for tests, Country reports and yes, SCIENCE PROJECTS! This time it is not for my grade, but my 5th grader. Why do teachers give out assignments that they KNOW a student can't do on their own, but have to have their parents walking them through each step of the process?! For the past few months I have been dreading this Science project and I told Chris that he had to help her with this one...I hate science and don't remember a thing about it (including what a hypothesis is). Well in keeping with my husband's ways, this was put off until the last minute, so this became the weekend project from you know where! Sienna came up with the topic, but the rest she had to be walked through at every step. She chose to do it on "Is sugar explosive", which was creative (I thought). I will spare you all the details, just know that after many sleepless nights and frustrated tears (on her part) she finished her display board and turned it in. She had to explain her project to the judges and we were so worried that she wouldn't know how to explain it. I talked to one of the judges yesterday and he told me that he was very impressed with her explanation and that she did a great job. Sienna felt really good about it and like her mother is THRILLED that it is done! For any of you that will have a 5th-8th grader soon...BEWARE!!!! YOUR DAY WILL COME!!! MAWAAAHAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAA!