Dear Anita,

My mom sits on the deck with us (she doesn’t swim).

She talks to my friends a lot, asks them questions – we all talk together.  Sometimes she asks them a lot of quetions, about their mom and life.  and we talk together.  it is fun.

afterwards she will talk about it all day.  like oh look at kristen, she has so muc hfun with her family.  or oh look at kristen, her mom is divorced and she doesn’t even take kristen anywhere.  or anything.

my mom gets very involved – and all of my friends love my mom because she has so much fun with us.  we all talk like we are friends – she is funny and silly with us too