Kristin wants to know: Who was your first crush, way back in grade school?

Aah my first crush. My first crush was Jeremy J and oh how I loved him!  I was convinced we would be married.

Jeremy was the oldest child of my parents’ friends, although he is two years younger than me. He also has a younger brother and when the four of us kids got together to play we were always paired off as Jeremy and me, his brother and my sister.

I remember giving him my piece of cake because it was the biggest slice (file under: foreshadowing to EVERY RELATIONSHIP FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE). The four of us – us two girls and two boys – played whatever types of games that 8 year olds played, mostly make believe role playing type games like “smurfs” and “mermaids and mermen” except… Except.

Jeremy and I were always the merMAIDS and he always wanted to be Smurfette.

In college, he majored in theatre.

My first “boyfriend” is gay, gay, gay, gay. He’s been gay since – well, since he was born obviously – but he’s been very obviously and outwardly gay since he was five years old.

So Mamas: if your five year old boy wants to be Smurfette for Halloween (fyi, his parents wouldn’t let him be Smurfette for Halloween, he had to go as a regular Smurf) don’t bother getting your panties in a bunch over it. Little girls like me will still want to be his girlfriend and ultimately he’ll end up with a super cute boyfriend.

And fantastic highlights.