- September 14, 2008
- 5 Comments
- Fa' Real?, General, Joel, Parenting/Family
Parents of the Year?
One evening recently, Paul and I shared a beer over dinner. Our 9 year old son, Joel, asked when he’d be able to have a beer. That’s easy. I told him, “When you’re 21.” He said, “That’s like in 12 years!”
He’s so good with math.
Because I have a disconnected connector in my “appropriate” box, I continued… “And your first beer is going to be with Mom and Dad! You remember that, you’ll have your first beer with mom and dad.” Oh, can you just feel the trouble coming…
A couple of days later, Joel was alone with his dad and me in the car. We were bantering back and forth… giggling… having a nice time… like buddies at a bar… And out of the blue, my little poke about his first beer reared it’s hoppy, malted head… Joel inquired,
Is this what it’s going to be like when you guys take me for a beer?
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Haha. We’ve had discussions like this with our kids. And lately with Janel, it’s been about tattoos. “Mom I want a tattoo like you and Dad”. Uhhh sure when you are at least 18 and you would have to pay for it yourself. “I’ll start saving right now.”
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LOL! He’s already thinking of the good times he can have with Mom & Dad drinking beer. Too cute!
He had a much better reaction than my daughter. My hubby & I aren’t beer drinkers, me especially. We were on a vacation getaway with the Bubba’s Sis family & at dinner my hubby decided to have a beer. Oh, you would have thought, well, I don’t know what, by my daughter’s reaction. She burst into TEARS! She has since realized that it’s not the end of the world.
So hilarious!
Yeah, we Bubbas are real drinkers!!
You are seriously funny. Just found you but I’m heading to my reader to put you in there.