Shaken.

I am not one for dramatics. I don't consider myself all too dramatic and I try to down play the drama from my kids. When I got a phone call this morning from the principal reporting that Audrey said some one had followed her to school, talked to her and grabbed the handle bar of her bike I won't lie--I thought, did this really happen? Have they recently been discussing stranger danger at school and she is embellishing a story? She is, after all, the most dramatic of all my children.

I went over to the school to talk to her and get to the bottom of the story. I didn't run into the school all teary eyed and on the verge of a freak out (me and hysterics rarely meet)---I was on a mission to get to the truth and get back home to my busy day. After a few minutes of questioning I had decided we needed to report it, but I was still fairly skeptical. Just then another student came and confirmed her story--said he saw it happen. He said this same car had followed him and a friend the other day. The car descriptions were essentially the same--still kids can really exaggerate these things sometimes, right? Then he said he and his friend noticed the license plate had double letters. A game they call Oreo. Audrey said she wrote down the plate number. She went to her classroom to get her notebook out of her backpack. She came back and showed us what she had written. It was a double letter license.

My heart sank.
She was telling the truth.
It just makes me sick.

She did do the right thing. She got out of the situation. She wrote down the license number--Smart girl, Smart, Smart Girl!! We dealt with it, called the resource officer and did everything that needed to be done.

I think I am just a little shell shocked from what could have been. My dear old Audrey does give me a run for my money....But what would I do without her?
I never want to know.

I am one proud and happy Mama today. My girl didn't curl up and consent. She balled up a fist and hit for all she was worth. My girl didn't blank out on what to do next. She wrote down the license plate number and description. (Thank you cousin sleuth kit!)
That's my girl!!
Yeah, she's a keeper.