Skip to main content

Half a decade later

On this night five years ago, I ate Thai food, cuddled my dog who had just had minor surgery, watched some TV, went into labor, breathed and groaned and puked and begged for drugs, pushed, cried, and held a squirming, bloated, purple creature in my arms for the first time and thought he was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen.

Tonight, as I'm sitting here typing this, that beautiful creature might as well have sprouted horns, fangs and a tail. He is buck naked, dripping soapy water all over the bathroom floor, screaming and whining because he has had entirely too much sugar today, is incredibly tired, and lost his bedtime-story privileges because he won't listen to one damn thing we say.

Happy Birthday Henry. We love you. But you drive us nuts.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
-- Franklin P. Jones, author

Comments

Happy Birthday, Henry!!!

from Tom, Scooter, Dawson, Oliver & Bose

Popular posts from this blog

Holy Separated-At-Birth, Batman!

Gary Oldman...meet Uncle Knit-Knots from Imagination Movers.

Is it OK to own a Canadian?

In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a U.S. resident, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative: Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination ... End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them. 1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexic...

What's in a name? Everything.

I'm appalled. You can call it King or Duke or Princess or M'lady of Everloving Windsor. But you cannot call it Queen. It is not Queen. Will never be Queen again. Freddie Mercury was the heart and soul and voice and face and pianist and songwriter and co-founder of that '70s & '80s phenomenal English rock band. Yet, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor have trotted some singer named Paul Rodgers on stage, on tour, on a new album, and are calling themselves Queen. Technically, they're referring to themselves as Queen + Paul Rodgers. I'm sorry, but two washed-up has-been musicians and some former singer for Bad Company does not somehow magically make it OK to blaspheme Freddie like this. The band HE fronted was the one inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. MTV named Mercury the second greatest singer in the history of popular music. I realize that many bands suffer this fate as members retire or die and others t...