Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 27, 2022

Oh, that’s evil!

THAT…. is cute! Big sisters always care.

I remember one time my boyfriend and I were talking in the rec room of my house. Little sister comes through with her best friend, who is giggling her head off. I crack up too, boy looks at me and asks what that was about. “She has a crush on you!” LOL! He was totally perplexed (no sisters, only brothers). I totally fell out laughing at his expression :)

Now imagine you’re a teen-aged boy with four sisters…

Cute? Hmmmmmm…

If Alex really wants to get back at Holly, she could say, yeah I got boyfriend before you did. Play on Holly’s, boy crazy pre-teen ego. It’d be a low blow in some ways, but there are times Holly needs to learn that words and actions have consequences.

Ugh. I hate when people play that a pre-teen’s male friends are her “boyfriends.” It does harm to perfectly normal friendship between the sexes. Both my girls had close male friends in elementary school, and both had the friendship deteriorate when adults or other kids decided they must be boyfriend and girlfriend.

Karma, Karma …..

I far prefer Alix’s view of “cute.”

I liked Elwin…was sorry he made no further appearances…

Holly is jealous.