And so it begins...Nooooo.....

So we're at home, making dinner, doing chores, etc. when a 10 or 11 year boy knocks on our door. Malia answers it. I look over her shoulder.

"I don't mean to barge in, but is Makayla Hatt here?" he asks.

"Yeah, just a second." I replied.

I go down the hall and let Makayla know she has a visitor. She had been making her bed and had seen him out the window. He's in her class, she tells me. She comes into the front room, and her brothers and sister and I are all standing there, watching.

"I'm lost." says the boy.

"Where are you trying to go?" I ask.

"Home." He replies.

"What street are you looking for?" I rephrase my question.

"Bridge Street." He answers.

I give him directions.

Then comes the million dollar question, "Do you want to come over?" He asks Makayla.

I don't know why I thought this was cute. I wondered how she'd respond. She shook her head and said, "NO. Thank you(so softly that I missed it)". Call me crazy, but I felt kinda sorry for the boy. That took guts to try that! What am I saying?! I think hunger is messing with my brain!

After he left, I told Makayla that she could have declined a little nicer. Maybe, we have plans already, my Mom's making dinner, my Mom likes to get to know parents before I'm allowed over to their house...Then all of the other incidents at school come spilling out. He tried to give her a brownie in the cafeteria during lunch, in front of all of her friends (one of the cafeteria rules is they're not supposed to share food with other students). Last year he was in her class too, and invited her over to "study". She had soccer practice that night, and told me she was glad of it.

I guess, I'm welcoming suggestions. I don't want her to be rude or insensitive to boys, especially when she knows they like her. I'm a little concerned, in that she seems a little arrogant about it. Perhaps, that's not an accurate reading either...

Yet, it seems when I was in college a lot of my friends that are boys told me they wished the young ladies they were interested in, when asked, would be honest, and let them know if their feelings were not reciprocated, so they could move on. Of course, that was centuries ago, and she's not in college, she's only 10.

5th grade, sheesh. All the things I'd forgotten. Not to mention that in the fall she'll be in middle school! Noooo!!!