"F$%&ing Shoes"

I love the days of taking care of your children. When they can't get by without you. You feel so needed. And don't you find kids can be so funny when they want to? They repeat things a lot and act goofy. They tend to fall down or drop things. They can't find something so "mom" has to do it. Sure, kids drool, they sometimes spit up, and they sometimes can't get thier shoes off, but hey...they are kids! They can't be perfect. My favorite is when the kids do something they feel guilty about so they blame the other kids. "Its Bobby's Fault" "Bobby made me". As if peer pressure explains away everything. The best is when the swear, and you probably shouldn't laugh, but when it comes out so quickly, its hard not to fight back the shock and surprise, so you laugh. But you don't let them see you laughing either because you don't want to let them think its okay, or in my case, because you don't want them to think your laughing AT them. But, they are kids, so we forgive them and we love them and sometimes even laugh at them.

I love my kids. My two big dorky old kids, who stumbled in from thier cabs at 1:30 in the morning last night, falling down trying to take of shoes, swearing about this and that, blaming each other for thier current state, and needing to be taken care of. My kids: Dad and Kevin. Don't you just wish you had my kids!