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Post by smokinghorse on May 20, 2016 20:57:45 GMT -7
Gram got new shoes today. He's 9 years old. Here are his shoes next to my size 9 1/2 grown ass woman shoes. This is ridiculous and upsetting. You have no idea. I have these two big kids, and this baby. These are the shoes for the baby! Do these look like fucking baby shoes to you???!!! Can't we just pause life?? He wanted to cuddle today. Every day he wants to cuddle, I try to burn it into my brain - his little boy smell, his cheek, his inevitable squirming giggle fest at one of our stupid inside jokes - because now I know from experience that it could be the last one. It's the most painful part of parenting for me. The lasts. I know there will always be firsts, but the lasts just kill me. Mostly because you only recognize them when they're fuzzy and faded in the rear view mirror. The details are unknowable, you're not even sure when you lost it. You just know it's gone. I'm so sappy right now. Last full day of 3rd grade, I guess. Plus these damn shoes.
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Post by smokinghorse on May 20, 2016 21:22:56 GMT -7
Oh, and when I complained to Eli, he said, "Well, yeah, but what if you compare them to real people's shoes?".
"Shut up, size 13. You're hardly qualified to comment on real people."
"You're right. I was baiting you. Really thought I'd piss off your feminazi with the real people thing. Dammit!"
"Fail! Ha! I'm cynical, jaded, and you will never win."
"Whatever. I inherited your cynical and jaded. Just having an off day."
This is how my family dysfunctions. I love them.
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Post by ronin on May 21, 2016 5:35:15 GMT -7
LOL, Eli...you have a lot to learn grasshopper. I know what you mean about G, Abs. My baby will be 8 in August and he's creeping up on me in height. It think both of my kids will be as tall as me when they hit puberty. My little boy still wants to be picked up when he's distressed. He's only about a foot shorter than me right now, so that's awkward. I usually just tell him he's too heavy and then bend down and snuggle him a little. Damn kids just decide on their own to get all huge.
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