My RULE!

I think that I'm a pretty easy going parent...sometimes too much...just look at my house. But I must have this rule. Jens has been so good to agree and not balk at it. He has great friends that also concede. I promise, their wives and their kids will appreciate this! I wish that I had more pictures of when I went on dates so I'm taking the initiative. If it were up to him, he wouldn't take any pictures except the ones that cost 500.00 at the dance and you get dumb themed posed ones.

Here is my rule: You MUST come back with your date to our house so I can take a picture of you two. And I can see her and meet her too. I don't care that that's the way it is in society that the boy just picks up the girl and takes off. Especially since I only have boys. I'm already missing out in all sorts of ways, not having any girls. **I must make a disclaimer...even if I had girls I would still want ALL my children to come back for pictures. I wanted my mom at every birth. (Although Brian's mother could have been there if she'd wanted to)

There are more boy-ask-girl dates/dances than girl ask boy dates. The girls' family usually is the one that you go see more often. I never went back to my date's house for any kind of meeting. They only saw me from the pictures that he brought home from the school a couple weeks later when it was all forgotten about that he set on his night stand until the next date dance. Every boy-ask-girl date can include a 30-45 minute session of me taking pictures. They can plan for that, right before the dinner reservations. And I know that as they all leave in our van that they are all saying..."Whew, that's over, now the fun can begin."

I'm not alone in this "foolish thinking"... Austin who is Jens's really good friend, his mother also has 3 boys and 1 little girl caboose. Austin's mom feels the same way. We take pictures together. Jens and Austin usually end up going in the same group.

Here are the buddies for this year's homecoming attraction: Jens and Chelsea, Austin and Kayla, Maurice and Chelsey, Ian and Zoe.

For their day date they went to make pottery at Color Me Mine. Jens has been here before with other groups and it's a fun little memento of the date, although expensive. Dropped off their dates to get ready and went to dinner...oh excuse me...take pictures with my mom and then off to dinner at Macaroni Grill. After two meals of fettuccine alfredo with grilled chicken, they went to the dance. You can't end the date just on that though, you have go and watch a movie that is scary at someones house.

Jens and Chelsea, Ian and Zoe, Maurice and Chelsey, Austin and Kayla