March 2022

 On Wednesday CJ took the SAT's.  She said that she thought she did ok but she is never sure.  I also signed her up to take the ACT in April so that she will have that score.  

Since I turned 50, I feel that in every doctor's appointment that I have had something has gone wrong.  Between for pap coming back abnormal, my feet having bone spares, and my thyroid quitting.  I was so glad when m mammogram came back normal with no problems.  I know it was a silly little thing but I did worry about it with all the other problems I was having. 

On Friday, March 4th CJ came in the house after play practice all sad and upset looking.  She told Jay and me that she had received an email from MedEx.  The way that she looked I said oh not it will be ok.  Then she got a big smile on her face and told us that she got in.  She was so sneaky.  We were so happy.  She said that she got the email while she was at play practice and she just screamed she was so happy.  This is going to be so great it really will give her all that she needs to start her medical career.  We took her out to dinner to celebrate. 

The month went by very quickly.  Jay got ready for the BBQ contest by putting new wood in the trailer and making sure that we had everything that we needed for the contest.  

On Saturday, the 12th we went out for Millie's birthday.  She wanted to go Ax throwing, dinner in Greenville, and to the rolled ice cream place.  We had so much fun and the girls laughed so much.  I just loved getting together with friends.  Though I think that I shocked Kerri with my past.  I did not mean to freak her out. I think she comes from a good home growing up.  I hope that I did not scare her too much and she does not what to hang out with me again.  I sometimes worry about that when I am with upscale people.  I do not even know how the conversation started about my growing up.  I think I was just talking about how important it is for us to mentor and help kids that come from bad homes so that they can learn what life really should be like.  

The next week this little boy started flirting with CJ at school.  She was coming home and telling me how nice it was to be told how beautiful she was by a boy and how he was searching her out to talk to her. She said that he was a football player and kind of cute.  She really liked the attention that he was giving her. Over the weekend we made Hamantashen for Purim.  I told her to take one to him because boys always like cookies.  She was not sure about that because she was not sure if he really liked her.  He kept flirting with her all the next week.  I told her that she would give him her phone number.  She was so nervous and was not sure.  By Thursday, the boy asked CJ for her phone number.  She said that they exchanged numbers and that is when the weirdness started. He started by sending pictures of himself.  Of course, I read CJ's text messages to make sure that everything is on the up and up and for CJ it was.  I was so impressed with her text messages back to him.  She told him that she was very uncomfortable with the pictures because he did not have a shirt on.  He kept telling her things like how beautiful she was and that she was is 'Boo."  But was not asking questions about her personally.  He then send her a text saying that he wanted to kiss her.  She then came to me and told me that she wrote him a text that she would like me to read.  The text was about how school and family were the most important things to her and she was not interested in sex.  That she would like to get to know him but she had never had a boyfriend and this was a little fast for her.  He then texted he back telling her that he understood but that he "Loved Her."    She said that the next day at school was just as weird as all the text messages.  She said that he was like texting her every 5 minutes even during class time which was not right.  Before Chemistry class he met up with her, this is part of CJ's lunch.  CJ was texting Millie as she always does at lunch and he tried to grab her phone away from her and find out who she was texting. He said, "Who are you texting?"  CJ said, "None of your business."  She really did not like that he grabbed her phone.  Her phone has her Dexcom connected so she is very protective of it.  She also does not see her dad and I did things like that so she knows that it was wrong.  He also kept trying to kiss her at school.  She said that she kept saying no but he kept trying to lean in for a kiss and asking her for a kiss.  She said that all that she could think about was this was not the way that she wanted her first kiss to be.  Not in school between classes.  She wanted it to be more special.  By the time that she got home, she said that she was over this DJ and that he was moving way too fast for her and did not what all that attention.  She sent him a text stating that he was moving too fast and that she did not what that.  He just texted her back saying that he did not want to lose her and that he loved her.  That really scared her, so she blocked his number.  I was very proud of her.  She told me that she thought that she wanted a boyfriend but if this was what having a boyfriend was about she thought that she was over it.  Her dad tried to talk to her about Black culture being different than Jewish culture and that they are ok with moving fast.  Boys are not taught to wait for marriage or until they really know someone to be in love with.  Love is just physical attraction and that is ok it is just different.  CJ was just not up for that.  She said that she was going to be like Millie and just focus on school and not worry about boys anymore. So technically CJ had a boyfriend from Thursday to Friday and was told that he loved her then she break his heart.  I know that is so silly.  CJ said that my Monday he had moved on to another girl.

That weekend we had our first BBQ contest of the season.  We were in Pendleton and it was raining so hard.  Jay almost lost our tents in the wind and he was so frustrated with the cook.  It was just the 3 of us doing the contest.  I do not think that Jay by the next morning was really into it.  I think that he just wanted to go home.  I do not even think that he took a lot of time with his box.  We only took 7th place at the contest but I told him it was all good at least we had fun.  I do not think that helped him. 

On Monday CJ had her appointment with the Endoconogist.  Everything went well.  We talked about putting CJ on birth control to help her blood sugar during the times that her hormones go crazing when she has her period.  The doctor told us that birth control will affect her blood sugar, but not in a good way.  That we really should not add any hormones into her body.  I think that I learn something new about diabetes every day. I took CJ to Greenfields for breakfast that morning before taking her back to school so that she would not miss play rehearsal. We were worried about what might happen with AJ the boy but he just ignored her and from Friday on she never heard a thing out of him.

CJ decided to do the talent show with her friends.  Sophia, Chanessey, and CJ were going to sing the song "Let it Go" and dress up then CJ was going to do a solo act and sing the "Joker."  On Saturday, CJ had her friends over to practice the song.  Jay was like if I hear Let it Go one more time I am going to scream. I thought that for a silly show it was cute.  Chanessey was not happy and there was some drama about whether or not they were going to do the act which was driving CJ crazy.

Monday when I got to work.  Ms. Center told me that she was not able to go to the conference on Tuesday because she could not find anyone to take her daughter to school.  The next thing that I know I am going to a call asking if I could take her place.  I was excited that I got asked to go.  I called Jay to make sure that we had nothing going on that I forgot about.  So on Tuesday, I ride to Georgia with some of the other ladies from work to go to a PLC conference.  The night that we got down there the girls all wanted to go to Top Golf for games, drinks, and dinner.  I did not like want I ordered for dinner for golf was so much fun.  We laughed and joked. It had been a long time since I swung a golf club. It was so nice getting to know all the ladies on a personal level. The conference was good and I learned so much to bring back to the 2 schools.