So my son paid me a high compliment yesterday. Normally, when I talk about my diary, my boys roll their eyes and groan loudly. My oldest boy detests denigration in any form, and whenever I drone on about what an awful mistake for the country John McCain would be, he gets huffy. Of course, if anyone gets on about Barack O’Bama, he also gets huffy. At least he’s fair minded. This weekend was different however. I don’t always read the posts to them, but I did for this last one. The older boy sat there, as I went on , rapt with attention to the words I was reading him. He then turns to me and says “Dad, you should be a writer. The things you said there, I’ve just never heard you talk like that before. I didn’t know you could. Can I have a copy of that?” He then made me copy it to his school share folder on their website. He decided he wanted to share it with his teachers, and get them to convince me to drop what I am doing and become a writer professionally.

All in all, it was nice to have a little Hero-worship from him again. That look in his eyes like I am still King of the World and legions will rise and fall at my command. For the last few years, we have moved around a lot, and our life has been tumultuous. Alex is a person who needs structure and order in his life. He needs to have a center, a ground. And not having had a lot of that has made him… grumpy. Hard for me to communicate with. But, in that moment, it was as if it didn’t matter anymore. He spent a long time trying to convince me how I could work my 9-5 then write in the evenings. An hour each day he said, and in a bit I would have a book, then I would be famous. It’s endearing that he would instantly assume whatever I write would be a hit, and that I would then be famous. Endearing that he would assume because he loved me, so would everyone else. It’s also endearing that when the discussion began to include my other son, Jason just rolled his eyes at Alex as if to say “Jeez, you only just discovered that Dad is awesome?” and made the same arguments about me dropping everything to become a writer full time. And then we played Batman Legos. :D

Happy Monday All!