Tuesday

There is country song with the main line of "but most of all, I miss my friend". Although in this case it is my mother it seems to describe today well. I have survived some 40 Tuesdays since that super crappy one (to say it nicely), mostly with the help of my rockin friend Nancy. Today after a morning of "no's" from Maxx and mischief from Titan all the things that are great in my life seem small next to the fact that it's still real, she is still gone, and of all the things I miss today, most of all I miss my friend.

Hopefully Wednesday comes quickly. :)

A Good Trip to the Doc

Yesterday for me was the type of day I imagine they make a movie about and have everyone watch before they make the decision to come to this life. :)

Garth Brooks described it best I believe:

"She's like fire, and she's like ice.
A little crazy, but it's nice and when she get's mad you best leave her alone.
Cuz she'll rage just like a river, then she'll beg you to forgive her.
Yes she's every woman that I've ever known."

Hopefully I will continue to grow out of it. So, today I reread one of my favorite books, Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. To me, it sums it all up, that despite all I know about the nature of this test we call life it is still hard at times; he gets it, I guess that is why they call him the Doc. :)

Good for the Soul

My dad is on day 3 of being off his feet for a few weeks recovering from a surgery on his leg. (Not the knees yet, just taking care of a sore leading up to the knee replacement.) To pass the time he has created a new sport. His friends brought him a nerf blowdart gun. Shooting at the TV and Christmas tree was fun for a minute, but he has moved on to moving targets. Not me, you don't bite the hand that feeds ya you know, he shoots Maximus and Titan. They scream and run and are always back for more within a second. Then Titan loves to pick up all the darts and give them back to Grandpa so he can do it all again. Goons.

Quotable to the Maxx

After sledding down the giant hill. "That was funny, let's go again!"

Moves all the pieces on the potato head sideways and says, "Look I'm a Picasso!"

Whenever I am talking about anyone we love like grandpa or dad he adds, "and Nancy!" (his 42 year old best friend)

Maxx: Mom, the monsters, the monsters! (acting like something is urgent and pulling me to come see)
Me: What monsters?
Maxx: Monsters Incorporated
And for a moment there I thought he may have developed a solid normal-kid fear... nope, just his zombie like love for all things animated and an amazing ability to pronounce Incorporated.


Me: Maximus do you want to watch monkeys?
Maxx: Tarzan.
My mistake :)

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

Now who wants to use the potty?

Motivation

I guess it all comes down to one question...
Why would someone use the boring potty when they can spray anything?

I may not survive this :)

Trick-or-Treating with Maximus

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At every house he would yell, "GO GO GO!" while everyone was piling out of the car.

He would say thank you, thank you, thank you until the person at the door said you’re welcome.

If they tried to give him more than one piece of candy he would put the other one back in the bowl.

When we sent him to the door with the kids he would come back excited, but with no candy.

Would unwrap his suckers then stick them in his bag.

Was more excited about the apple than all the chocolate.

Ate ½ of the apple then added it to the bag with all the unwrapped suckers.

I told him to tell our friend, “Jenny, give me some candy!” He really got into that one and kept repeating it.

One of the other kids said, “Oh, that is where Trinity lives”. So Maxx started yelling “To infinity and beyond” at the top of his lungs, joined by all the kids, for the rest of the time. (Trinity is now a swear word in our house).

He is one funny ginger.






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