Dave and The Amazing Strip Club

Yesterday, I was going over Paige's lessons for the day and I noticed that my child had written the words "amazing strip club" on the back of a Band-Aid package.  When she returned from the bathroom, the following conversation took place:

Me:  Paige, did you write this?
Paige:  Yes.  My friend Dave needed help.
Me:  Your friend Dave?  Who is Dave and what did he need help with?
Paige:  He needed me to help him build his amazing strip club.

At this point, I got sweaty and felt bile come up in my already acidy refluxish throat.  Still, I powered through it....

Me:  Paige, who is Dave?
Paige:  He's my friend on Minecraft.
Me:  What do you mean he's your friend?
Paige:  He's my friend.  I got on the multi player Minecraft server and he asked me to help him with his strip club.

And now, for the million dollar question....

Me:  Paige, do you know what a strip club is?
Paige:  No.  Should I?

I went on to explain to her what a strip club is and why it is never, ever a good idea to play with or talk to people via the internet when you are 9 years old and have no idea who you are dealing with.  At that time, I had to have the child predator conversation with my kid and while it's necessary to inform and protect our kids, that is NOT a fun conversation.  And Paige, as only she could, let me know the following:

Paige:  I didn't go in the strip club and dance.  I just helped him put the roof on.

Paige no longer plays Minecraft on the "multi player" server.
I no longer let my child out of my sight....as if I wasn't overbearing enough....

So that was a small window into our week of homeschooling -which has been fantastic by the way.  I'm so glad that we decided to do this and I'm expecting only greatness from this experience.

Other parts of my life?  Not so much greatness these days....but hey, who doesn't go through a shitstorm from time to time?

I had been away from my blog for so long that I forgot my password.  In all fairness, I had to change it right around the time I made my last post and without blogging regularly, the password faded from my memory.  I also attempted to create a new blog last night since I can't figure out how to edit this one anymore - Blogger has made some platform changes and it's sort of confusing.  Well....if you can't figure out how to change and existing one, you sure aren't going to know how to make a new one.  I was just expecting a little more guidance, but hey - I'm back on this one, so no worries.

I know a lot of people want me to talk about chili politics and I really don't know how I feel about wading into that shark infested ocean again.  Whether you speak the truth or not - and whether you do it in a respectful manner or not - you are going to piss off someone who isn't able to respect EVERYONE'S right to an opinion - especially if it differs from theirs.  Since the chili world makes up most of my customer base, I really don't see any advantage to pissing people off just so I can spew my opinion on my blog.  I have a handful (super small, baby size handful) of people I trust and share with.....this blog reaches too many not on the approved list.  So, don't hold out any hope of me going batshit crazy on the chili world via my blog...unless I can do it in super secretive, super passive aggressive language :)

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and that ya'll will check back often and read my blog.  It is my intention to blog at least every other day.  I shall endeavor to do so.

Keep it Spicy and ALWAYS Keep it Real (Ellis Co. Style if you can.......)

The Cadillac Cowgirl