An Important Job

This morning, being Shabbat, we sleep in around here. By "we" I mean one of the adults, surely we haven't enforced this rule with our children enough. Cassy is the one who works the hardest at keeping up with the house, cooking, cleaning, and getting up with the kids during the night. Therefore, I let her sleep in on Shabbat at least twice a year. Today was one of her days. Gami appeared in our bedroom door proudly proclaiming his new found control over his bladder and that he needed to release the floodgates. So I crawled out of my blanket burrito, brushed off the crumbs from the actual burrito I was eating while in bed last night, and helped him pull his pants down. He has mastered holding his pee, but he has not mastered aiming his pee. He misses the pot even when he is sitting on it. This is proof that some things really are instinctual. It would take hours and hours of training to teach a male how to successfully get all of his pee into the toilet, and that time is much better spent watching football. So, when he was done watering the carpet, we proceeded to make mancakes for breakfast. That's right, mancakes. Mancakes are pancakes that have the distinct mark of man on them. No, that doesn't mean we peed on them, too. It means that all of them are somehow misshaped because Gami and Abba made them with about as much care as we take in aiming our pee. I flip them too early or they have some other deformity. What difference does it make? In four minutes they will be mixing with stomach acids... and in four hours well... let's just say I aim better for what happens then. Anyways, I was trying to explain to Gami how I will be going away soon, to CHBOLC, a very important job for the Army. I said things like, "Abba is going on a trip soon", "Abba has to fly on the airplane", and "Abba is going to miss you." I gave him an quiz on comprehension. I asked, "is Abba going on an airplane?" Gami replied, "yes, and I go on a little airplane with Ima!" I asked, "Is Abba going away soon?" Gami replied, "yes, I'll miss you!" I asked, "Does Abba have an important job to do?" Gami paused for a few seconds, thought, blinked, looked me square in the eyes and exclaimed, ""Make mancakes!" I agree, making mancakes with my son is a much more important job than CHBOLC. Unfortunately the latter pays for the former.

Shalom,
Brandon