Wednesday, July 06, 2005

What's For Dinner?

• Husband (age 45): "Well, I guess I'll have to read it now." (He was serious.) :-)
• Daughter (age 18): "It's so big! Wow." She gives me a hug. "Congratulations, Mom. Good job. That's awesome."
• Son (age 17): "That's a horrible picture of you. Did they pick it out?"
• Daughter (age 15): "Your book came! Your book came! Wow! That's so totally cool! Are you, like, so excited?" (She reads up through the end of chapter one.) "So, like, thanks for leaving me out of the Acknowledgements. I'm seeing how it is. You thank the husband. You thank the parents. You mention the kids with the dogs. It's always been my dream to be dedicated. So, like, will you dedicate the next one to me? Jesus won't mind."
• Son (age 14): "350 pages. Sheesh."

And the refrain to all that was: "What's for dinner???"

That very same night was my daughter's high school graduation. (A class of 1146 students, so it was a looooooooong ceremony.) So, I took a book and Greg (my hubby) took his newspaper and Bride. (We were at an outdoor concert pavilion on a blanket on a hill, so it's not like we were in some nice auditorium or something. The graduates and the grandmas were sitting in the covered area in the "real" seats.)

Anyhoo, Greg read the Sports page, the Business page, the Graduation Program--twice--and finally picked up Bride. He flips right past the Acknowledgment Page. I stop him and tell him he skipped the acknowledgements.

His entire facial expression changed to distress. "I have to read every single page?!" I told him, yes, every single page. So, he reads it and his chest expands and the man who is way too shy for public displays of affection, leans over and gives me a big ol' kiss. Right there in front of God and everybody. Made my night.

Tomorrow, I'll tell you the story of how my big, 6'5" athletic Texan reconciled himself to reading a romance. Meanwhile, here's a story of another man's first experience with my romance novel and my male boss's story of how he, begrudgingly, acquired a romance, of all things, as his first acquistion. (Let me mention, he is an intellectual and his favorite book is Moby Dick. ha!)

Grace and peace,
Deeanne

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posted by Deeanne at 9:05 AM  

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