7/12/11

Little Old Man

My son went to a birthday party last night and afterwards was supposed to spend the night at his friend's house (which happens to be right down the street from us).  I am working nights this week, so I was not present for these arrangements, but a couple of hours after I was informed of them, I sent my husband a text message saying he needed to tell our neighbors that he'd be picking E up in the morning for vacation bible school.

My husband's reply: "He came home. Said he was worried they were going to stay up too late."

E is more responsible as an 8 year old than most of the adults I know.  Present company included.

7/5/11

Love

The Huz and I celebrated our wedding anniversary yesterday.  We've made annual mix cds (yes, make fun of us, we're geeky) for each other ever since we started dating, which we realized the other day was when we were both still teenagers...and that made me feel very old.  We usually try to make them at least partly tailored to the other person's musical taste.  Which means D cuts back on the metal and I cut back on the female singer/songwriters.  And we always try to put new or unfamiliar songs on them.  You know, to stimulate the other person's musical growth or something.  We also write our own "liner notes" of the songs and artists on the CDs and why we've picked them.  D's tend to be much...briefer, while mine will lean toward paragraphs per song if I'm not careful.

This year, I was reading the liner notes he wrote for me and found this description of one song...

"Beautiful and strange. Just like you."

Which made me laugh out loud and say "aw" at the same time.  Just like he always does.

I'm so lucky.
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