Groot To Toe

I promised Jeffrey I would not send the photo I just took of him with an empty plate balanced by his aunt Mary on top of his head this morning at Grandma's house ... and see, I'm not sending it, I'm just telling you. (Even Martha hasn't seen the photo ... yet.) It's just good to see the kids smiling after this morning did not start out -- or at least I did not start out -- quite as the loving father or gentle man of God I'm supposed to be. Sad thing to say, since I actually slept in (for me, not waking up until seven thirty is sleeping in; but that's nothing, Saturday morning I didn't get up until a quarter after nine) and I didn't have to fight to get Sarah and Jeffrey up, they came down on their own!

Sunday for Father's Day (I just noticed I've been misspelling Fathers' Day for some reason, but is it really misspelling since I just misplaced the apostrophe?) after church which the whole family came to ... I hate to say I was about to go by myself and leave Martha and the kids sleeping -- it had been a long day with the four of us watching Minot State University's Summer Theater performance of Annie, the kids and I going to Dadfest in southeast Minot during the day where there were pictures, blacktop racing, free food, horse and buggy rides, free food, a pallet maze, free ... heck, you get the idea, sponsored by one of our local churches. Martha worked that day so she couldn't come, snif.

After that I took the kids someplace I wanted to go (and they already known they've blown their allowance for the rest of the month), Original Comics and Collectibles on Main Street, which Jeffrey called when he saw where we were going "The Original Store" and I thought he would call it "The Boba Fett Store" with its business logo. We went downstairs in there and played a round of the arcade game Gauntlet and I picked up a few comic books that finished one storyline I'd started last month (the Dazzler one I wrote about last week) and another one I'd started thirty years ago about DC Comics' Blue Devil, a special effects artist who ends up magically bonded to his costume.

The kids each agreed on the same toy they wanted, a bobblehead of Groot toward film's end from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and I even got Martha in on the act by buying her a deck of cards with The Princess Bride theme. Sarah's really taken to hers, even marking the box the toy came in with "This is Groot's Home!" Sunday after church the family and I went out to Ground Round, where just as with Mother's Day there's a wheel to spin for either a meal discount or a free item; I spun and we got three dollars knocked off in addition to getting the kids' meals for $1.76 since on Sundays from 11-2 they pay what they weigh -- I'll leave it to you to figure out the split if you dare.

We're approaching two pm my time so I want to wrap this up, David