Cupcake Making Dancing Music

Friday was my daughter's 11th birthday. She is now 11 and going into the 6th grade.

I'm a bit scared.

But... On Saturday we hosted her birthday party. What she wanted to do more than anything was to have everyone decorate their OWN cupcakes. Which meant that my Saturday morning was spent baking.

To set the mood of fun, I popped the new Mat Kearney CD I received from One2One Network into the disc changer and turned up the volume.

 

The Young Love album is upbeat and fun. It is completely family friendly, and I had no concerns about blaring it as my daughter, her best friend, and I starting whipping up cupcakes like no one's business...

The girls danced around the kitchen to the catchy lead off single, "Hey Mama". Although not all as fast paced, the rest of the album proved to be full of the catchy and rhythmic tunes Mat Kearney is known for!

My favorite song on the album was "Learning to Love Again". My daughter loved the beat and lyrics to "She Got the Honey" and danced around to it long after the cupcakes were baked!

The cupcakes turned out famously, and the girls were riding high on an icing induced sugar high for much of the night. I survived my youngest turning 11 and officially entering the middle school years...

Now to prep myself for 14 and high school... Maybe Mat will have an album to help me cope.

I received the Mat Kearney Young Love album at no charge from One2One Network in exchange for my honest opinion.

Mom of Middle Schooler - Say It Ain't So

The Boy doesn't start school until September 7.  However, yesterday a very scary reality set in.  We were up by 7:30, showered, dressed, and out the door by 8:30.  We were on our way to Middle School Orientation. *dut dut daaaa* 

As we were driving to the school, The Boy was asking all kinds of questions about what middle school when my mind drifed off to a conversation I had with a very old friend a summer or two ago....

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Friend: Hahaha, remember middle school!?! We had so much fun.

Me: Oh my gosh!  We were so naughty!  I can't believe we never got caught pulling the shit we pulled!

Friend: I know!!  Remember how everyone used to sneak into your house at night and we'd all hang out in your bedroom until 3 or 4 in the morning?!

Me: LOL!!  I know!  I swear, I have no idea how we never got busted!  We had so many people over!  What about when Frank (name changed to protect the not so innocent) used to steal his brother's car?!

Friend: Frank!!!  Hahahaha!!  What about you stealing your mom's car!  We couldn't have been more than 12 or 13!!!

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Flash back to reality...  12 or 13!!!  Oh my good gracious!!!  The Boy will be 12 in December!  I met my closest friends and partners in crime in the 6th grade!!!  The 6th grade!!!!  I. Am. So. Not. Ready. For. This.

Me on left - in Middle School