When my kids started going to school, I use to sit in the drop off lane and think about which one of my girls would be the “trouble maker” like I was. Which one would end up in the principal’s office first? Which one would need note after note signed? Which one would have after school suspension?

If you knew my children you would know what everyone else knows:: Emma. It will be Emma. She is skinny and scrappy but doesn’t take any crap from anyone. She will stick her chest out to the biggest of kids and when she slams her converse one stars on your big toe, boy can she run like the wind.

I got a call from the principal’s office last week. When I saw the number come up on my caller ID at work I knew one of my kids was in the office. Olivia is the exact moralistic replica of my sister (the worst thing she ever did when we were growing up was come home 12 minutes late from her junior prom) so I knew it wasn’t her. Emma isn’t old enough for the public school yet, so that leaves Corina. Corina is the one clumsiest child on the planet and so I was well prepared for a paniced principal to tell me she was on the way to the ER with a broken arm from a horrible monkey bar accident. Instead I heard this::

“Uh, hello. Ms. *****. I have Corina here in the office with me and she has been sent here for fighting.”

“Fighting? Not falling down the steps on the way to the cafeteria, tripping over her shoestrings in gym class, trying to fly from the swing while it is ten feet in the air?

“No, mam, fighting.”

“Corina? Fighting? Sure my five year old didn’t sneak in there today?”

“No, mam, It’s Corina and she was fighting in the bathroom with another girl.”

“I just cannot believe she was fighting. Are you sure it was Corina fighting?”

“Yes mam, I am sure it was Corina and I am sure she was fighting. Evidently her and this little girl have been going at it all year and Corina had enough and wopped her one.”

“Corina *****? (last name) Are you sure?”

“Mam, I am sure it was Corina. I have her right here. Now I am only obligated to notify you. Are there any other questions you would like to ask?”

“Well, yeah. Did she win?”