He's Just Like Them!

If you have ever seen the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, there are two characters who are not aliens. In the final scene Donald Southerland (not an alien) is walking down the street in a kind of daze, the girl in the story runs up and tries to talk to him, only to have him shriek at her in an alien voice, letting her know he had become one of them. This same type of scene happened to me with my son recently. We were at a tee ball game of a friend and were priveliged enough to sit in the dugout. My normally docile, loving child suddenly turned into one of the other 4 and 5 year olds around him. Yelling, trying to hang from the rafters, and generally being a disruption. As you can imagine, I thought my child was different, but when put in the same area as others he quickly took on their personality, I was stunned. I admit the dugout is one step away from a guys locker room, it's smells like sweat and there are lots of junivile jokes. I guess in a way I should be relieved, he's normal, but at the same time it's a sign he's growing up and I'm having a hard time dealing with that as I said before. I want my child to be different, not in a nerdy no one wants to be around him sort of way but in a think for himself don't follow the crowd sort of way and I guess this scared the heck out of me. There is only so much warping I can do to him before his mother steps in so he has to do some of it on his own. I don't want him to play sports, I want him to want to stay home on weekends, not care about whats popular and whats not but to be himself no matter what people think. There is still time, he's only 3 and a half so I'll keep working at it and maybe if I pretend that he isn't growing up it won't happen, but I doubt it.

Way Too Long

It's been way too long since I have posted let me see if I can knock everything out at once. I went on vacation for a week to Galveston Island with the family. I discovered that Mr.B is good for about four hours on the town and then he is ready to head back to the "Heltell" to sleep lay around and swim. Next year, the vacation will be to a hotel, no activities. We did have fun though, Mr. B is a train nut and just so happens that Galveston has one of the best train museums around that was stop number one. We also hit Kemah bay which is kinda like a board walk like what you see in the movies only smaller. It's still a cool place to visit though. We also saw my mom and spent sometime with her and went to a wedding for a cousin. Then last week my wife decided it was time to revamp the guest room, so I have been hanging crown molding and things such as that. I have to remember to cancel HGTV. I have also been editing video and not sleeping enough the last couple weeks. All of this to excuse my tardiness on the blog I'll do better in the coming weeks I promise.

I'm Sorry

Forgive me my blogging lately has been somewhat sorry. My amazing week of blogging that was supposed to happen last week was cut short due to my body insisting that I sleep. This week at work is full of training, I have to be honest I hate training new employees. It usually goes something like this, I talk, a lot, and they fall asleep. I can't help it, what we do is not that exciting, I try to make it as entertaining as possible but it rarely happens. On top of that, I am supposed to handle all that tasks that no one else will do. Like jobs they should do but not exactly assigned to them so the feel if they don't do them they will go away. I used to have people that helped me with this but they moved on to bigger and better things. The upside, I am leaving for a week next week to go on vacation with my family. I can't decide if I'm excited about vacation or getting out of the office and someone else handling everything. So since I am going on vacation, blogs will be even more scarce than they are now. Next week ends with a wedding for a family member I have not seen in at least ten years. I am nervous and excited to see these people again but we will see how it goes.