Like Father .....

Nothing makes you realize what goes around comes around like fatherhood. I was picking my son up from Kindergarten today and I happened to be waiting with a mom who attended the same school elementary school with me years ago. It is kinda of neat that her daughter and my son are in kindergarten together and can look at the old school pictures and see their parents as little kids in the same class. Anyways, that is another story. While I was waiting for my son I was peaking in through the window and I see all the little kids coming out of the room, single file, neatly spaced, until there is a large gap in the line. Suddenly, I see my son appear. He takes a few steps and then stops abruptly so all of the kids behind run into him. He goes a few more steps and stops again. The kids all seem to find this hilarious, as 5 year olds tend to do, and I begin shaking my head. The mother standing beside me, who's daughter of course was walking very nicely in line, laughed and said "What do you expect don't you remember what you were like?' Suddenly it hit me, it is going to be a long 13 years until graduation.

Priorities

Do you ever just stop and think "Man, how the hell did I ever get so lucky"? Well, thanks to my wife and my two boys I do on a regular basis. It is amazing what being surrounded by people you love more than anything in the world can do for a persons priorities.