Not My Type???????? Are you kidding me?????

After looking at this picture of this beautiful little girl I ask you one question........ Can you imagine her not being someones "type" ?

Let me back up a bit. My daughter has had her heart set on a cocky little boy in the second grade. He is in a class across the hall from her. We will call him "Nick" (o.k that really is his name but I do not feel the need to protect him right now) I have never seen Emma so over the moon for a boy before. I do not like her being so hung up on a boy but I figured if I did not make a big deal about it ... well it would run its course. She talked about this Nick character for about 3 months. She was convinced that he did not know that she existed. She wore her coat to recess every day without fail so she could hide if he walked by. When I asked her why she needed to hide she said "because I dont want Nick to see my face" "Why" I inquired " because Mommy, when I see him I get nervous my cheeks get all red and my voice gets shaky and I dont think he will like me" I assured her that anybody would be crazy not to like her. She screwed up her courage and finaly decided to "let him see her face" She did not wear her coat over her face. You wanna know what that little troublemaker did?

He walked by my beautiful vulnerable little girl and took a double look at her and told her" I saw your face and you are not my type" Are you kidding me???? She came home from school with her first broken heart. I am mommy and I am supposed to know what to say but I did not. I wanted to have the magic words to say to make her feel all better...but the words escaped me. I just picked her up and hugged her extra tight and told her that he was crazy and obviously his" type" is ugly girls. So he was right she was nowhere near his type because she was the most beautiful 8 year old girl I had ever seen. Then we had a cookie and some lemonade. I have found that cookies can usually fix most things.

Word to the wise.... You had better step lightly when it comes to my childrens feelings...... You think that dealing with Emma's older brothers sounds like a nightmare... that is because you have not messed with me yet....

I feel like I am in for quite a ride with this one........