Mother Lover!!!!

• 11/18/15
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• My elder son is a true mother lover.  Last night I could not find the words to use in front of his in-laws so I resorted to threatening bodily harm, then added, "in front of the children."   I didn't binge watch The Sopranos for nothing.
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•   Typically due to the two hour time difference and my autistic live-in son's needs, we go to bed before Buck, the elder, gets home from work.  Because of the duplicitous practices of Amazon, the Grandson's birthday present was not delivered Sunday as promised.   It was delivered Monday.  Could they be any more irritating? 
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•   Buck and I agreed that he would open it Tuesday night, with me participating via Skype.   I waited . . . and waited . . . until at last I broke and phoned my son.  "Oh, we already opened it, he said,"  Crestfallen, I said, "Okay,"  what else?  Then he offered to Skype "anyway."  The first thing I saw was the Amazonbedamned box on the sofa.  Then it hit me.  Knowing I was on speaker, I couldn't say the choice words, so I began threatening him.   His reply was,"I can't believe you fell for it," which both respects me and irritates me simultaneously.  Only he has the psychological insight and sophistication to push my buttons so effectively, and now he has a new tool.  My Angel.  
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• Moving on to the Angel who made all resentment fall away and only bliss and gratitude remain for having such a charming, loving, humorous, bundle of euphoria.   He opened those dinosaurs, refused to allow ol' Dad to so much as touch them, and continued to be wholly focused on them for the duration of the call, except for one time he noticed his Mother's smartphone needed to be charged.  He had to stop momentarily and plug that in.   Correctly, I might add. (Genius).
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•   Active imagination was just a theory in grad school, but watching him gives it LIFE.   One dinosaur with a long neck, hissed.  He was snake dinosaur,  Triceratops was "Oweee" dinosaur due to his sharp points which he would touch and scream "Oweee!" to get a fingertip kiss from Daddy. Then dissolve to giggles. 15 times. We also had flying dinosaur, and my favorite, growling dinosaur.  Watching His Royal Gentleness attempt to do fierce is a side-splitting treat.  The adults were highly amused.  Then they started scoring the birthday gift as an olympic event.   All 10's.    
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• I went to sleep with a wide open, laughing heart.  Highly recommended.