Yes, I am now mixing Facebook status updates and WordPress titles. Such is life.
More than a year ago I was riding the commuter train between Uppsala and Upplands Väsby, with my son in his stroller, and across from me an Italian guy said, “So, how is your little champion doing?” I immediately liked him for calling my son a “little champion.” And today he and his wife and two kids came over to my place for tacos, drinks, candy and general hanging out.
I like this about life: one comment on a train a year and a half ago results in friendship, kids playing together, and people from three different countries eating tacos at a table in Sweden as the snow comes down outside. It makes all the internationalism a little more bearable. Though tacos and alcohol always make things a little more bearable.
I love my son, right now, pushing his plastic bus around the coffee table. I love kids hitting each other and crying one moment, and the next moment sneaking out to the staircase in pirate hats. Nothing will ever get better than that.
Tags: family, friends, humor, internationalism, Miami Ink, parenting, personal, pirate hats, random
November 17, 2008 at 5:46 pm
What a great post, some of the best make it look so easy. Reading your posts make me want to be a better writer.
November 18, 2008 at 8:00 am
This was very sweet… It made me wish I was there (my tacos would have tofu, of course).
November 21, 2008 at 4:58 am
Ah, Sugar Pea (sounds like a Southern -ism), you are such a gentle soul. I like that about you. I like that you pay attention in life. I like that you make ME pay attention.
Thanks. This was cool.
November 22, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Pirate hats rock!!
December 12, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I love tacos! And Miami Ink. It’s so way better than LA Ink.
January 26, 2009 at 3:46 am
I agree man. I miss that about childhood. I also wish that I could wear a pirate hat at work and not get fired.