On dads and moms

Lee has an excellent post about being the Daddy and having “mommy envy.” Thanks to Genuine for the heads up.

Reflecting on my situation, I guess I have it better than some. I live close to work in a fairly small town. It changes from time to time, but right now my wife has to be at work before I do so I get the kids up and dressed, try and get them to eat something semi-healthy (what we need is Skittles cereal) and take them to school or day care. In the afternoon about half the time I pick them up. My wife and I each juggle the soccer practices and other meetings and things.

So this morning I was thinking that what could have been a ten or fifteen minute drive to work turned into an hour of driving back and forth (forgot something) and smiling and giving status updates to teachers and sitters and double checking that I left the kids in the right place with the right lunch and I was being pretty hard on myself and thinking “will it ever end?” Now after reading some other comments on this, perhaps I should relax a bit and not be in a hurry for it to end.

They do grow up, fast.

Not sure what I think of this one

Boy Who Lost Foul Ball to Man Gets Gifts

ARLINGTON, Texas – A 4-year-old boy who lost a foul ball to a not-so-grown-up adult is getting a windfall worthy of a game-winning home run hitter.

A man sitting behind Nick O’Brien at a Texas Rangers (news) baseball game Sunday knocked the boy against the seats as he dived to get a foul ball. Fans started chanting “Give him the ball!” but the man wouldn’t give it up.

“I couldn’t believe someone would do something like that to a 4-year-old boy,” said Nick’s mother, Edie O’Brien.

O’Brien said she swatted the man with a cardboard fan and called him a jerk, among other names. “I said, ‘You trampled a 4-year-old boy to get this ball,’ and he said, ‘Oh, well,'” she told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday, adding that the man seemed proud he got the ball.

What is it with people? It’s a fucking BALL. I can see a four year old wanting it, but the 28 year old former youth minister? And then to not even have the balls (sorry) to say “I’m sorry I was a jerk and knocked you down, here, you can have the ball.” It was a foul ball, too (how many of those in a game? Fifty?), not like a home run.

Of course now the poor little kid gets to go to New York City and do the rounds of the talk shows. He’ll be as famous as Jessica Lynch (remember her?) before long.