Probably the most uplifting news story I read today was about firefighters who used the jaws of life to rescue a trapped kitten that had slipped between two boulders. After rescuing it, one of the firefighters decided to adopt it.
Gunther’s attitude pisses me off. His (single!) mom spent his entire life dedicated to raising him, forgoing her own needs to make sure his were taken care of. Does he comprehend what kind of sacrifice that is? How freaking lonely single motherhood can be? Well, now he’s raised. He’s an adult and he needs to act like one, and let his mom have a chance to live her own life for a change. And he needs to figure this out quick before he does something incredibly stupid and selfish.
As tragic as it is that Shannon’s dad would rather go to a party than spend time with her, I’m glad he’s not a control freak power play dad who would force her to come against her will. Maybe she’ll actually get a chance at happiness with Brad and Toni.
Yeah, rather than this being the start of “adopt Shannon,” maybe it’s the start of “Brad learns that sometimes the kid has to go with her sperm-doner ‘dad’ whether she wants to or not because that’s what the law says she has to do, and neither the kid nor the people who actually care about her can do anything about it except endure and hope nothing bad happens.” Welcome to real life.
There’s no point in making your kid a costume unless you actually ask them what they want to be for Halloween first. You can make the coolest, most accurate Sherlock Holmes costume ever, but it’s all for nothing if your son wants to be Iron Man. I love making my kids’ costumes every year, but I make sure they are as excited about it as I am FIRST.
What, you’re incapable of picking up a watering can, John?