Dear Cupid,
Your big day is over. Thank you for your service.
I know you worked overtime with my sons. Each has a girlfriend.
Dominic has been with Anica a little while — long enough to get into trouble for skipping class to kiss her in the multipurpose room at school.
(The phone call with the assistant principal was mortifying for both of us.)
Now he wants to take it to the next level.
Um.
Not just no. HELL no.
I have to hand it to him: He was brave to ask.
But not THAT brave as he asked his father, not me.
Thankfully, Gideon is still in the kiddie pool. But he’s practicing his strokes.
Oh.
My.
God.
🙄
Right?!
This is new — very new — for him. In fact, it almost didn’t happen.
Him: There’s a girl at school who likes me.
Me: Yeah? Do you like her?
Him: Yeah.
Me (Spidey senses tingling): So what’s the problem?
Him: I don’t know if I have time for a girlfriend with jujitsu and baseball and homework.
Me: Well, just talk to her about it. Let her know.
Him: Okay.
(Waits a beat.)
Him: I’m glad I can talk to you about relationship stuff.
Anyway, you did your thing. And now I have to do my mom thing — the thing where I notice everything but pretend not to, let alone say anything.
They’re feral cats: I have to let them come to me.
Thanks again. I think.
Love,
Beth
Observe and report 
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