Twilight at Midnight

I really have slacked off on the blogging.....I missed an important one before Thanksgiving....Katie and I went to the midnight opening of Twilight...yes it was a school night and yes, we both went to school the next day on time....it was so rebellious and fun to do it.

I find there are less and less moments Katie and I share these days....she has to play the adolescent, freshmen in high school role and I play the overbearing mom role....plus I didn't live through having a mom, so I have no example on how to deal with these times from either side, so I am kind of making it up as I go along....but this night, we were united.  It was actually really fun and I couldn't believe how many people at work said to me, "what a good mom", when I told them.  I thought for sure they would be saying to themselves, "what an awful mom to be taking her daughter to a midnight movie on a school night", but it was the opposite.  I didn't even think of it that way because to me it was just time with Katie, but who doesn't need positive affirmation when being a mom???

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