You want to do WHAT???

The time has come. *sigh* My baby is going out on her first "real" date Friday night. Part of me thinks we are out of our ever loving minds. I am really NOT READY FOR THIS! Hopefully, she is. Frankly, I'm not sure, I don't know if she is or not. We've given her the tools, but this step is scary y'all. Very, very scary. We were kind of pulled into the whole dating thing (kicking and screaming) by our oldest. It snuck up on us, nice and slow...groups at first, etc. Trust me, that sounds like the perfect way to do it. It isn't. I don't think there is a perfect way. We tried to do everything right, but mistakes were still made along the way. Along comes number 2, and what do you know? She's a completely different child (how dare she!). Lessons we learned along the way with number one, just aren't that applicable with number two. That's the dirty little secret of parenting, sometimes experience just isn't going to get you through...they're all different. Our second child is much quieter than her older brother. We haven't dealt with some of the same social issues that we had already dealt with by now with him. That's payback people--just like he didn't sleep until he was 3 1/2, she slept through day one. They get along beautifully, but in a lot of ways, she's the ying to his yang, or whatever. But now, the time has come. Friday night. One a date. With a boy. In a car. With an older boy. I think I have to go throw up now.