On Monday Zoe went to church with grandma for a quick VBS meeting. My mom and I are the directors of VBS, so we'll be living at church the next couple weeks and "quick" is a relative term!
Anyway, Zoe was at church and Ben's mom works at our church. Ben just happened to be dropped off that day and he was very worried that Zoe was mad at him. Zoe and I had agreed that the best thing to do was to treat Ben like we always do and just be a friend. I'm so proud of my girl. She went right up to Ben, started talking about who knows what and they ended up playing together for 4 hours. No mention of the dreaded engagement talk, just two friends playing and laughing and having a great time. At then end, he even thanked my mom for "her patience" because he knew she had been wanting to leave for the last 2 hours. Score a point for Ben and his thoughtful heart.
Yesterday, we were at church again and Ben's mom was there, but no Ben. As Zoe and I left, we said hello to her and went on our way.
Fast forward to last night, Grandma Lily ran into Ben's mom at dinner. I guess when she got home, she told Ben she saw Zoe and his first question was, "did she ask about me?" I have to be honest, that little question just makes me smile.
I guess the real reason that he said "NO!" was because Zoe mentioned something about him living with us. That, unfortunately was a HUGE deal breaker to a 5 year old. Quite honestly, I'm glad he can keep his wits about him when asked major-life changing questions by a cute girl. Score another point for Ben.
He told his mom that he does want to marry Zoe, but she'd have to move in with his family. He's thinking he'll ask her on Sunday to marry him.
Now we have entered into negotiations for a fake marriage. Do we need to have a couple fake goats and some rubber chickens to sweeten this deal? I feel a little unprepared.
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