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My Son Illuminates Me

October 16, 2014 by Homemaker Man

It was just before bedtime. I was carrying the Pumpkin Man, his head on my chest, and we were heading into the book room to do our reading and I said something that ended with, “my son.” Maybe it was, “do two Hail Marys and three Our Fathers, my son.” Probably not though.

He said back, “You’re my son.”

I said, “No. You’re my son.”

He said, “You’re my son.”

I said, “No. I’m you’re daddy, you’re my son.”

He said, “No. You’re my son.”

I said, “Do you mean ‘son’ like ‘son and daddy’ or ‘sun’ like the ‘sun that shines outside’.”

He leaned back and looked at me and said, “The sun goes up. The sun goes down. You’re my sun.”

I can’t even express in words how much that makes me the winner. Big winner. Right Here.

A version of this first appeared on Musings from The Big Pink.

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Filed Under: relationships, toddlers Tagged With: humor, sons

About Homemaker Man

Homemaker Man, a member of the Boston Dads Group, is an ex-dishwasher-short order cook-baker-college student-deli man-grant writer-comic-mailman-bohemian. Among other things. He is now a devoted and tired family man, and an unwilling and unqualified tee-ball coach.

He writes about his wife, two children and whatever else catches the fluttering remains of his attention span at the blog Musings From The Big Pink, where a version of this post first appeared. You can follow him on Twitter.

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