30 Seconds In Pictures

Cameron at yesterday's wrestling match...Total Elapsed Time: 30 seconds...


2. The Handshake


3. The Take-Down


4. The Pin

Love and the 5th Grade Boy

As Jackson was getting ready for bed last night I went to his bedroom door to ask him a question. I obviously surprised him as he jumped and quickly stuck something in his pajama bottoms. In his hand he was holding a pair of scissors...

My mind immediately went to the worse cased scenario, especially in this age of easy access to all things immoral.

It didn't help my suspicions that he was completely mortified that I had caught him with whatever he'd been doing. No matter how I prompted, kindly and thoughtfully I might add, he wouldn't give up his secret.

So I went downstairs. A few minutes later, he came down and went to the trash can to stuff in whatever he'd been hiding. His Dad walked in behind him, completely oblivious to what had happened upstairs. So, of course, he wants to know what he's hiding!

By this point Jackson is completely devastated that both his parents have caught him hiding his stuff. He begs us to stop "interrogating" him and goes to bed.

I, being the good mother that I am, go into the trash can to fish out the contraband.
What I discovered broke my heart...

It was a note from his beloved 5th grade crush, Betsy -- to another boy. He had somehow got his hands on this at school and confiscated it so the other boy wouldn't see. Before he destroyed the evidence he needed to cut one thing out for himself...Betsy's phone number.

Innocence lost? Not for my 11 year old son -- he's just lost in love!

Fifty and One-Tenth

John turned 50 and 1/10 today. It's evident on the cake...the candle on the right...the short one...with the finger pointing at it. Cameron decided the cake needed five candles and one-tenth of a sixth. Fifty-one...

Ice Cream cake, milk mustaches, and his three sons! A very happy birthday...

Go Packers!

We've decided, as a family, to support the Green Bay Packers next weekend. Brett Favre? Gotta go with the old guy...simply to help us feel young! (especially my 51 year old -- Happy Birthday tomorrow honey -- hockey playing husband!)

Anyone else care to comment on YOUR team favorites? Here's the match-ups again...

NFC Divisional Title
Green Bay Packers vs New York Giants (Just not the right Manning in the game...)

AFC Divisional Title
New England Patriots vs San Diego Chargers (QB Rivers and Tomlinson are both injured...)