original posting december 12, 2007
my nephew ben was born four years ago today at altus air force base in altus, oklahoma.
he is the fourth of my brothers' five kids, the youngest son. when he was a baby, his older brother, jordan, wanted to give him a nickname...he said he wanted to choose something tough, but the best he could come up with was "benny blueberry"......which we recognized was far from tough, but we loved it anyway and have since shortened it to benny b.
though i love all five of them, messy hair, soap in their eyes, syrupy kisses and all...benny and i have a special connection. first, i tell him all the time that he and i are in the "cool birthday club" since his birthday is 12-12 and mine is 11-11.but also, a couple of years ago, as i was filling out one of those on-line survey things, you know where 3 is the last person you talked to on the phone, 5 is the person you're thinking about, etc. anyway, one of my responses was my nephew ben. as the answers were revealed, it identified that the response to 7, where i had written ben's name, indicated that that person was "my lucky star...." so i've always secretly thought of benny as my lucky star.
so, the other day i got the christmas letter my brother and his family send out every year. each of his children had a quote of the year listed, something funny or charming they had said. ben's quote was in reference to his 1-year-old little sister, isabela. he said, "mommy, sometimes i like isabela and sometimes i don't." coming from the mouth of a 4-year-old, his comments are amusing...as sometimes, his baby sister is cute and cuddly and other times she meddles too much with his legos and matchbox cars. but what i love most about what he said is the pure honesty in his words.
you know, in reality, there are many times in my life when sometimes i like the people i care most about and but sometimes i don't like them. but as an adult, if i were to say that, it would sound mean. but come on, it's true, there are times when my favorite thing to do is be around the people i love and other times when i'd rather die a slow and painful death. my point….THAT'S ok, it doesn't mean we don't still love them…..but it's unrealistic to think we like them ALL the time, but only four-year-old's have the smarts to say it out loud.
my nephew ben was born four years ago today at altus air force base in altus, oklahoma.
he is the fourth of my brothers' five kids, the youngest son. when he was a baby, his older brother, jordan, wanted to give him a nickname...he said he wanted to choose something tough, but the best he could come up with was "benny blueberry"......which we recognized was far from tough, but we loved it anyway and have since shortened it to benny b.
though i love all five of them, messy hair, soap in their eyes, syrupy kisses and all...benny and i have a special connection. first, i tell him all the time that he and i are in the "cool birthday club" since his birthday is 12-12 and mine is 11-11.but also, a couple of years ago, as i was filling out one of those on-line survey things, you know where 3 is the last person you talked to on the phone, 5 is the person you're thinking about, etc. anyway, one of my responses was my nephew ben. as the answers were revealed, it identified that the response to 7, where i had written ben's name, indicated that that person was "my lucky star...." so i've always secretly thought of benny as my lucky star.
so, the other day i got the christmas letter my brother and his family send out every year. each of his children had a quote of the year listed, something funny or charming they had said. ben's quote was in reference to his 1-year-old little sister, isabela. he said, "mommy, sometimes i like isabela and sometimes i don't." coming from the mouth of a 4-year-old, his comments are amusing...as sometimes, his baby sister is cute and cuddly and other times she meddles too much with his legos and matchbox cars. but what i love most about what he said is the pure honesty in his words.
you know, in reality, there are many times in my life when sometimes i like the people i care most about and but sometimes i don't like them. but as an adult, if i were to say that, it would sound mean. but come on, it's true, there are times when my favorite thing to do is be around the people i love and other times when i'd rather die a slow and painful death. my point….THAT'S ok, it doesn't mean we don't still love them…..but it's unrealistic to think we like them ALL the time, but only four-year-old's have the smarts to say it out loud.
so, to those of you closest to me…..in the words of benny blueberry…."sometimes i like you and sometimes i don't…." but no matter what i still love you.
more to come...
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