Friday Night Dance

So, Joshua had a dance to attend on Friday night. For the past few years, a private school in Little Rock hosts this "prom" for a school for kids/adults with special needs. They supply the venue, the decorations, the snacks, the music...and extra people to help hang out and dance with all the friends.

I bought Joshua a seer-sucker blazer, and he wore it with his khaki pants and a lavender shirt. Jenni's dress was pink with white polka-dots. I posted a picture on Instagram (martythemoose) and Facebook of this. They looked precious!

I drove Joshua into LR to meet up with Jenni and her helper/friend, Tiffanie at the restaurant. We usually get a wrist corsage for Jenni, but this year we decided to get her a little bracelet instead. She doesn't like wearing the wrist corsage when she dances and it usually ends up crumpled up in the back of the car somewhere. She seemed to really like the bracelet.

They ate at their dinner and then Tiffanie took them to the dance. They had a lot of fun...

FOR AN HOUR.

I got a call from Tiffanie saying that Jenni wasn't feeling well and so they were headed home. I had just been looking on Facebook at her pictures and she looked fine and happy. I don't know if something just came over her all of a sudden, or if she was tired...or mad...or sad...or what.

All I could think of was how I planned for this goofy dance all week...got the clothes, the bracelet, gave him money.

At any rate, he came home. He said he had a great time, and that he danced with a lot of different people, but that he and Jenni never danced once together.

I'm thinkin' THERE'S YOUR SIGN, MARTY.

It's hard to realize that they...the friends...don't always do things the way we do. At dances, it's not uncommon for the friends to dance in a group...or with a person other than your date. It's even okay to dance alone. So the fact that Joshua and Jenni didn't dance together wasn't that huge of a deal. I think if they had stayed at the dance longer, they would have. Joshua said Jenni was doing her own thing, and so he was doing his...and they each danced with other people, and by themselves.

"Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth!" Psalm 100:1