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Well. Another frustrating disappointment between my sensitive 14-year old daughter and me.

Last night Hubby, Youngest, and I all went to the home of a friend, who wanted to do something very very nice for everyone who helped with Youngest’s soccer team this year. The daughters were allowed to be at the home even though the party was not for them, but since the host and hostess obviously have a daughter of this age, they let our daughters come to keep her company upstairs while we had our adult party downstairs. The party was for 4 couples plus the host and hostess (coaches, trainer, treasurer, and team-mom).

The host is a collector of wines, and they had planned an evening of a progression of selected wines from champaign through whites, reds, and a final port. Food was served with each different wine, and we all talked and toward the end of the evening, even danced a little. Toward the end of the evening, I was standing in the kitchen with the host and allowing him to tell me more about the wines we had enjoyed throughout the evening: where he had bought them and when, how much they were valued at today, the person who had been this man’s wine mentor and how he had become interested in wine collecting, etc. It was in this way that I learned something that not everyone at the party was aware of: this couple had just shared almost $4000 of wine with us that evening! I was so stunned and grateful that I leaned over and kissed our host on the cheek and told him how very thankful we were for his generosity!

Well, Youngest is (through my own fault with my history) very sensitive to my wine drinking, and she happened to be passing through and saw me kiss the host. She is furious with me! She says she is embarrassed because I got drunk at her friend’s house and kissed her friend’s dad. I told her it wasn’t inappropriate and it was just friendly and I told her why I had done it. She is not impressed. She is pissed off.

I shared this with a friend of mine at church this morning. She said to tell Youngest that she (my friend) would have done a whole lot more for $4000 of wine than kiss him on the cheek!

Sigh.

Oh, and after a note I just received, I want to clarify that we were in the kitchen which was totally open to the den where the party was, so we weren’t alone or anything! -13D