Frankly I think Miss A wears my 8th grade cheerleading uniform much cuter than I ever did.

Do you remember your middle school mascot? We were the vikings and our official colors were orange and white, which I’m sure was homage to the University of Tennessee. We were also the little country school that provoked teasing from the bigger schools in our county. We were so small we didn’t have a school cafeteria set up for lunch breaks. We’d go through the line with our plastic trays and then eat back in our classrooms. All that combined with the fact that I had a mouth full of braces and weighed 70 something pounds soaking wet was pretty much an after school special on pre-teen angst just waiting to happen.