Play Date Time

Katelynn has a friend at school that we had run into awhile ago at a function and the girls said they wanted to have a play date.  I gave the mom my information and she emailed me a few weeks ago.  She asked if Katelynn would like to come over for a sleep over or a play date.  I told her that I would ask Katelynn what she would like to do.  Katelynn said no on the sleep over since she has never really stayed at anyone's house before where she didn't know the parents before hand.  She said she would like to do a play date though.  The other little girls birthday was coming up and the mom asked if it would be okay if they picked up Katelyn and took her with for the day to an indoor pool.  Katelynn thought that would be a ton of fun so I said sure.  I was a nervous mommy about it all.  They picked Katelynn up at 11am and said they would have her back around 5 pm.  I couldn't believe that I was going to let my daughter be gone for that many hours with someone I didn't know well and drive to another town and on top of it at a swimming pool, but I did.  Katelynn and I both survived.  I took some time for me that day to head out and go do some shopping with a girlfriend while Dan was home and Junior was napping so it worked out well.  The next weekend we had her little friend over for a sleep over and the girls did great.  Katelynn has a new friend and hopefully we can continue to trade off our kids!  Now I need to find someone though for Junior because he cried when Katelynn had a friend over and he did not, poor little guy!