The Katie Chronicles: Ten Going On Fifty Edition

Katie has been at Girl Scout camp week and, even though it's a day camp, older girls can stay the night for one night if they choose. Katie had intended to stay the night tonight but I got a call in the afternoon saying she wasn't going to stay. She said she just changed her mind and nothing was wrong, so I went to get her after the camp was over for the evening. On the way home, she told me that she had been getting some headaches and also the girls she would have shared a tent with were talking about how they were going to stay up all night long. They apparently said they were going to make her stay up, too. She told me, "I didn't want to stay up all night. I just want to get some sleep." This is what happens when you're 10 and have middle-aged parents. You have no desire to see what the world gets up to after 10.30 pm. Next, she'll be complaining about the property taxes and grunting when she has to get up from the couch.