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Tweak says, "African or European?"

Saint Patrick ☘ (shamrocked_) wrote,
@ 2016-10-11 22:46:00

Current mood:

cheerful

Ella is going to be starting school soon. And by that I mean next year, but already I'm all panicky about it. She informed me she's smarter than I am though, so she should be just fine. She's probably not wrong either, considering her parents...

The boys are doing well and Mairead has settled back into her school life too!

I missed all this stuff. Sure, the ancient Romans didn't have high school, but there was a lot of schooling I missed out on because some assholes thought I'd make a better slave than a noble. But boy do I know a lot about sheep!

I should not be jealous of my teenage daughter for being able to go to high school, it's so stupid. I'll just focus on Halloween upcoming instead.

HALLOWWEEEEEEEEEN!

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	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Daughter? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Oh, uh. You know. I mean like. Psuedo...psuedo-daughter? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 05:54 am UTC (link)
	Nah. I like daughter better. You say Halloween, I say HOMECOMING! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 05:55 am UTC (link)
	Oh! Me! I mean me too. Are you going to dance with someone and do the electric slide? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 05:56 am UTC (link)
	You're going to take a million photos of us, aren't you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

shamrocked_
2016-10-11 05:58 am UTC (link)

I am. And I'm going to take forever doing it too, because I'll forget the lens cap, and then need to ask Clio how to do it 67 times, yet still refuse to just let her do it. And then I'll obviously need to tell the story of when I went to a school dance. Made up, of course. And the story of when I bought the camera. It'll be one of those stories where I have to pause to remember whether I was eating a hot dog, or whether it really was a Tuesday, or maybe it was a Wednesday-

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	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 05:58 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, you got the dad thing down pretty good. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 06:00 am UTC (link)
	"HONEY! Mai's young man/woman/gender nonbinary friend is here! Hello young man/woman/nonbinary friend, you want some hot cocoa?! Let me tell you several boring stories you couldn't possibly be interested in to try to test how patient you are" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 06:00 am UTC (link)
	HAH! And uhm...probably the woman one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-11 06:01 am UTC (link)
	Great! I look forward to meeting her! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jdelacroix 2016-10-11 02:04 pm UTC (link)
	takes reams of notes for when Bastian grows up I might see if the others want to dress him up, but I'll probably stay home and hand out candy to the neighborhood kids. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-13 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Hah, notes on what? How to be awkward?! It is pretty great handing out candy! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jdelacroix 2016-10-13 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Man, I am going to be the dad-est of dads. Stories and baby pictures and vaguely threatening statements of curfew. The whole nine yards. It is, and I don't really have anyone to take trick-or-treating anyway. It'd be kind of weird if my adult brothers and I turned up in costumes asking for candy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-13 04:04 am UTC (link)
	We should start a club! You, Nicholas, me and Joey! Probably, but if you turn up here I'll give you candy! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jdelacroix 2016-10-13 04:22 am UTC (link)
	We'll get t-shirts and embarrass the hell out of our kids. Well I never turn down candy! We'll see how the night plays out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-13 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Oh my god, club t-shirts! Sounds good to me. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	first_called 2016-10-12 02:40 am UTC (link)
	But boy do I know a lot about sheep! That's one way of looking at it, I suppose. Though no one could ever accuse you of being unintelligent. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-13 01:07 am UTC (link)
	It's okay I know I'm not very educated. Never was. I think I make up for it with heart. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_called 2016-10-13 01:15 am UTC (link)
	Well neither was I, if you think about it. I was just a fisherman who threw in my lot with the Son of God. And yes, you do. It's hard to think of anyone I know who has a bigger heart than you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-13 04:05 am UTC (link)
	But you're legendary! Aww, thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_called 2016-10-13 04:28 am UTC (link)
	But not because I was hugely smart or wonderfully excellent at everything I did. Hopefully, I'm much the same now as I was then: a quiet man with a simple life, spreading the Word. Which was all I ever wanted to be. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shamrocked_ 2016-10-13 04:34 am UTC (link)
	I think you've definitely achieved that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_called 2016-10-13 04:36 am UTC (link)
	And with that, I am content. (Reply to this) (Parent)