Rewind to mid-March. It's a Saturday evening and Perris and I are in bed discussing/planning a lesson we were teaching to a fellow at Church, reviewing what the missionaries taught him a few years ago.
I have been thinking for DAYS about how this conversation started, but I just CANNOT. Dang it.
Anyway, somehow we were led to the fact that Perris does not share a hymnal with me. He will hand me his, and open a new one for himself if I go to share with him.
As I explained this concept of "WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH ME?" and "you're not that blind that you can't see the notes if we are sharing..." Perris proceeds to draw a diagram.
I was completely opposed to this.
This is not work where you love drawing diagrams when you talk about IT Risk Assessments...
But alas, there he went, drawing and explaining...explaining and drawing...
The conclusion of the matter was that if sharing a hymnal was really that important to me, then he'd do it because it would become important to him. He was being pulled in no direction to do otherwise because I had never expressed the deep meaning it would have if we were to share.
Sound complicated? It probably got a little too complicated. But ultimately, I understood his feelings and told him to carry on with his own hymn book. Besides, Wade's now at an age that I point to all the notes with his fingers as we sing, AND I'm trying to memorize all the hymns so I don't even need one!!!
Good story, I know.
Here's another:
One night after work, Perris was wrestling with the childrens. He often pretends to eat their feet, and after doing so to Wade, looked at Wade and said in a sly, playful whisper, "Should we eat Mom's feet?" and proceeds to lean towards my feet and begin with a snarly growl to eat my feet. Immediately upon the suggestion and movement towards my feet, Wade starts screaming "NOO!" in terror and bursts into tears! haha HE LOVES ME & my feet! It was so, so tender, but so hilarious. Perris snapped a photo of post-trauma comforting.
Somebody's been experimenting with makeup. This photo is from last week. Today I actually looked closely at him and he had mascara on one eye! It was extremely well done! I asked him if he put mascara on, and he was pretty embarrassed, denying the fact and dying with laughter. Looks pretty good :)
