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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nasdaqian who wrote (60386)	8/11/2001 10:22:02 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Morning Nas, I've spent the last five years at DAR reliving how wonderful my life as a mom has been. A lot of the best (and funniest) memories were the hassely ones you're talking about, when you thought, "I'll never get through this stage". It's so easy to forget to step back and laugh, when that's the most important thing you can do sometimes. One summer we took a trip to DC. We did the Smithsonian, climbed the Washington Monument, walked the Mall, stopped and fed squirrels, and then went to Hogates for dinner, where Dan and I had eaten on our honeymoon and the memory of their rum buns has caused Pavlovian drooling in me ever since. At the end of a long day, we started back to our hotel, which was on the Va side, if I remember correctly- which I probably don't, as I have no sense of direction at all and rely on Dan, who PRIDES himself on his. We found ourselves driving past the Washington Monument and we oohed and ahhed at it, all lit up so beautifully at night. Then we drove for a bit, and there we were again, driving past the Washington Monument. When we drove past it the third time, it started being very funny to the boys and me. "Ohh look! THe Washington Monument-- Again!!" "Daddy sure loves the Washington Monument!" Say, Dad, I don't suppose you want to drive by the Washington Monument, do you? I'd like to see it ---again." We think we are very funny, especially since I have possession of our new videocamera, and am taping the Monument every time we go by. And recording for posterity Dan's face as he glares at it and the boys laughing at him and most nastily at me pointing that horrible camera at him. He hates that tape- HATES it. Because his jaw is clenched, his hands grip the steering wheel tightly, and you can tell he is NOT finding this at all amusing. He hates himself on that tape becuase it reminds him how he was not the dad he wants to remember being. EVen though we reassure him that most of the time he was a really cool dad, and that even this time he at least provided us with much entertainment, it doesn't help. One of my great pieces of Maternal Wisdom, which I received from my mother, was never to do or write anything that you wouldn't want the pastor to see or the principal to read over the intercom. A Parental Addendum to that would be Never behave with your family in a way you don't want to see yourself behaving twenty years down the road on a tape. That's not very gracefully worded, but you get the idea.