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Happy Summer; Embrace Your Frenemies

21 Jun 2010 2 Comments

by danka in Uncategorized Tags: grace

Happy Summer Solstice.

Although, right now, it is housework day (Monday) I do plan on celebrating the longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer by taking the kids to the water park after school. We haven’t made it there yet this year, and what a great excuse. Also, my Mother in Law and I will be making the most of the extended daylight by hitting the driving range after dinner. We were going to play a full round, but the forecast says rain is a big possibility and the earliest tee time available was 7:30. We’re both too old to golf that late, solstice or not. How about you? Anything planned?

Today Grace came roaring out of her kindergarten classroom asking for a play-date. Unfortunately, the friend she wanted had already left. So I let her play at the playground for a while as I stood holding her backpack, an armload of stuffies she had somehow accumulated in her coat-cubby, chatting with some other parents.

One of the little boys came over and whispered something in his mother’s ear and then ran away. She looked at me with eyes as big as saucers. Little Malcom had come and asked if Grace could come over to his house to play. You have to understand, Grace and Malcom have been arch-enemies since the first day of Kindergarten in Septemeber. He is the only kid she does not like and he teases her ceaselessly. I’m pretty sure she lies in bed at night plotting his demise. So anyway, I called Grace over, asked her of she wanted to go – and she said yes.

As the two of us walked down to the car together to fetch her booster seat, I asked her if she really wanted to play with Malcom, or if she was just hurting for a play-date. I asked her if she thought they could survive the afternoon together. She nodded her head, quietly considering the possibilities. “Malcom…..” she paused. “Malcom…..we….I think this could be good, Mom.”

Okay.

So off she went with Malcom, his little brother and his Mom. They left it until the very last week of school (yay it’s the last week of school!) but maybe this one last Kindergarten friendship has finally been kick-started.