Love Deeply

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

-- A.W. Pinero

Life in Pictures

I'm kinda in Love with these two!

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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

-- Erastus Wiman

A NEWBORN'S CONVERSATION WITH GOD

A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"

God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy."

God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy."

Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?"

God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."

"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"

God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray."

"Who will protect me?"

God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking its life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."

God said, "Your angel will talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you."

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I must leave now, what do I call this angel?"

God said, "You will simply call her, "Mommy."

So kiss me...

The day has arrived. A couple days ago Mommy was putting you to bed and she told you to say goodnight to daddy, and I said gimme a kiss big boy and you leaned right over and gave me a kiss. Uhhh Houston we have a problem. Daddy was not ready for such a moment. I just about started sobbing, but I think I was too shocked. Mommy and I were both shocked.

Since then you have given real kisses to Papa and Mommy and I think Uncle Jason. You won't know how much that little kiss, slobber and all, meant to your daddy until you have a little boy of your own, and you wait for months for him to show you he loves you in a way you can understand. Then when that moment arrives you are just not ready. You think you are ready, but you're not. It's like the moment in Fight Club when Jack finds out he is Tyler Durden.

You struck your daddy silly.

(Pictured Auntie Michelle and Cousin Jack)

Happy 5th Birthday Trinity!

OK the word is out Gavin loves the puggies. Numerous times we find him sitting there laughing at them as the play tug-o-war with a toy. In fact he will even jump in there and get a hand on the toy himself. If they are playing and they move someplace else he quickly gets down and chases them. The pugs don't seem to mind at all.

I was thinking about the fact that small dogs have long lives usually sometimes 13 or more years. Gavin could be 10 years old when the time comes for our puggies to go to the happy farm. It's a shame people can't visit that farm. :)

If only we knew...

I always wondered what I would be able to say to my kids that would make them say "WOW! You're old!". Well kids...I am older than the Internet. That's right; when I was a boy there was no Internet! Fancy home computers didn't exist either. The coolest electronic device we had was a calculator watch, and it was Huge. To this day I don't know what the hell the point of a calculator watch is, but the commercial made you feel like you were James Bond if you had one. James Bond did A LOT of long division right? Right?

The reason I bring up the Internet is to poorly segwey and tell another story which ties these two seemingly unrelated things together, in case you are wondering where I came up with this crackpot idea, just search the Internet for Photo Orbs. Despite it's shoddy pseudo-scientific origins this crackpot idea is one I would like to believe.

If you didn't hit the link I will sum it up for you. Have you ever taken a picture and noticed those little anomolies in the photograph they look like a little orb of light? Some Internet folk believe that those anomolies are spirits watching the person in the photograph.

Gavin hasn't had a remarkable number of these show up, but when they do I always like to think that I caught his Abuelita or his Papa spending time with him.

A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case a thousand I LOVE YOU'S!

I LOVE YOU BIG BOY!

Cousins