Hi! We're Cathy and Dave. Thanks for taking the time to get to know us a little better on our adventure with our first son, Justin, and the journey we will be starting on to bring our second son, Ethan (nee Shani), home over the next few weeks. We're not sure when our invitation to travel to Kiev will come, but we do know that there will always be more to be Thankful for in November and more reason to celebrate the coming of our Savior as we start a new year.
A funny thing happened on the way to school this morning.
Justin doesn't like riding the bus to school. The bus to the newcomers program is a longer ride than the one the other kids have. This year's program is a little farther still than last year's program. Justin, Cathy and I will be so excited when he starts "normal" middle school at his regular school. It'll be closer. He'll have his choice of riding the bus, walking, negotiating for the keys to the car...But for now, I drop him off at school in the morning. Some mornings I have time to drop Cathy off at work.
So, we had a good laugh over what happened when I dropped Justin off at school. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
I have to get on the highway to get across town to drop Justin off. At the light to turn to go down the on ramp, there was a dead skunk in the middle of the road. The other side of the road. Oncoming cars had to go around or straddle it. With the windows rolled up and the air on, we could still smell it.
I thought - here's my opportunity! I can be "Dad" and educate my son. So, I say, "Look, buddy! - There's a dead skunk. Ya smell that? When a skunk feels that a bad animal or a bad person is around, they spray that stink to make them go away." I was pretty proud of myself, I tried to use language he would understand; not make it too complicated, get the basic idea across and inform and educate my son. I thought I was pretty cool.
Here's what I got back
"Augh! That smell! It's EVERY where! I smell it every WHERE! It's on me! Is it on my clothes? It's on my clothes! It's ALL OVER me! Will it EVER go away? When will it go away? If I'm smelling like skunk, then I CAN'T go to karate! How many bath am I gonna have to take to get rid of that smell? Many bath? How many days? Will it be on me forever?"
At this point, Cathy is howling, tears streaming down her face as I am repeating this story to her, in my son's voice. If you've seen Adam Sandler in Click with Kate Beckinsale and David Hasslehoff, you might have an idea why we were laughing so hard. There's a scene, that's pretty raunchy, where Sandler gets mad at his boss, pauses his life and climbs up on his boss' desk. What he does next is pretty crude and raunchy. He presses play on the remote for his life and his boss' reaction is the real punchline.
Justin kept on asking how long he was going to be stuck with the stink until we got off the highway, near where I work, and started heading toward school.
"I'm gonna smell like this forever! How do I get this smell off me?"
Not long, I told him, pretty soon he would forget all about it. Then, I told him that it might be kinda cool to tell the other kids in class that he saw a dead skunk in the road on the way to school.
He could even ask the kids sitting next to him if they smelled skunk on him.
I'm expecting a call from the school any minute...
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