On the lighter side of things, we were fortunate enough to have some friends over for lunch last Friday. These friends of our sent their oldest daughter off to Pensecola Christian College last fall. As we were eating lunch, the conversation drifted to their daughter and how she was doing in her first year of college.
As parents do, they warmed up immediately to the idea of sharing all the things that were going on in the life of their daughter. They told us how she had been homesick for a little while, they told us about her job, and they told us about the boys that were interested in her. This caused my girls to perk up and pay close attention to our conversation. My daughters heard how the boys would walk her to class holding an umbrella over her head.
I didn't think much about this until last night as we were eating dinner. My family started talking about how that story had impacted the week. Apparently the story had really bothered Kaylin because she had discussed it with her sisters several times. Kaylin could just not get over the fact that the boys were following this girl to class with an umbrella. I learned a lot at our dinner conversation. One of the most telling things I learned was that our girls are reading too many "Victorian" books and watching too many "Christie" DVD's.
You see, at the dinner table, the girls shared with me how Kaylin had been so bothered by the story that she brought it up on the drive to play practice last weekend. She declared...
"I think it is so cheesy for the boys to be following a girl around with an umbrella!"
Emily replied, "Kaylin, not if it's raining"
"Oh, it was raining?" asked Kaylin.
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