What you think does matter

Marriage, it's a wonderful thing. But it also has a special kind of place if you will. It is nothing like you see in the movies or Television. It certainly is not like what you see in the commercials. The reality of life as a married couple is more something like this...... It's not that when you get married you stop romanticizing about each other. It is not that you don't desire each other, after all that’s how we got those darn kids.... It is not that we don't love each other. The reality of life is that marriage - a true marriage [ a union of two that becomes one ] is so much more than what we fantasize about or is portrayed before us in cinema. The truth about marriage is ..... You know everything about each other. They snore, they toss in their sleep. Hell, some of them fart in their sleep [ that‘s right I said it - I don‘t do it but I have a family member who does - camping story for another time ]. We see each other do things that single people do, but are too em

Summer is Over, Time for Wild Hair So summer is over and school has started once again. But my son who use to love having a spiky hairstyle, he now wants nothing less than the [yuk] Justin beiber look. It's killing me to watch him comb his hair. This morning I figured I would bother him and I took a picture of him with his hair "gone wild"... He didn't care. He just went on with hair like nothing. Oh I have this terrible urge to give him a buzz cut as he sleeps. Really, would it be wrong of me if he just happens to wake up next morning to find that half of his head is shaved clean? This child of mine is amazing and annoying all at the same time.

How do you know your getting old? Here is a good question: How do you know your getting old? I have been noticing that beside the fact that my age is showing - you know, grey hair, wrinkles, tiring easily and the hair thing….. I have also notice the not so subtle things that scream “old” to those around me. Take for instance: 1- A new fashion craze seems oddly similar to an old fashion when you were a kid. 2- You like new hip music because unknowing to you it sampled an old favorite song of yours. 3- New tv shows, movies and so forth annoys you because it doesn’t do justice to the original series. 4- When you try to help your kids with their homework you find out that “NO” you are not smarter than a fifth grader. I guess the biggest clue I had in realizing how age is creeping up on me is this one obvious clue - I was sitting at work, I got up and realized I had some how sprained my ankle. I figure I’d walk it off - not good. I figured that I would bounce back and tomorrow I would be ba