more than 30 hurting homes
This morning as I woke up my son to get him ready for school, I laid down and held him. My mind wandered to the pain that those more than 30 homes of the slain Virginia Tech students are experiencing right now. I held my son close to me, he snuggled up into my chest. There are more than 30 mothers and fathers that are hurting so badly right now from some senseless violence. Equally sobering and provides some perspective, in Iraq, this happens every day (a point brought to my attention by one of my favorite bloggers, egan). All I can do is just be thankful for my wife and children today. 
After getting my son to bed last night, a potential day care customer for my wife stopped by with her very sleepy son. The little 19 month old boy woke up and started playing with Viv, checking out our playroom while Dana and his mother spoke. When it was time to go, he got really upset, he reached for me from his mother’s arms. I obliged and held him so his mom and my wife could finish their talk. Although he might have mistaken me for his daddy, that made me feel good.
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April 17th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Ah… PAAS Easter egg dye?? That’s the way to do it “old school” style.
It’s so sad that this type of senseless violence happens daily around the world, let alone in our back yards.
My wife and I were thinking the same thing as you yesterday. I can’t begin to imagine what the parents of every VT student was thinking yesterday… hoping that their child was safe.
If you want to off yourself… enjoy. Just leave everyone else out of your twisted world.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Indeed, events like this can help remind us just how lucky we are.
I didn’t realize Dana is doing/is going to be doing a daycare service. Has she started doing it already? I don’t remember you mentioning it before.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Is Dana going to do home daycare? I do it two days a week. Tell her (or if she is reading, email me Dana!) to email me. I didn’t write some things in my contract that I wish I had…the biggest being that the contract should expire and need to be re-signed at some point so I can change anything that needs to be changed! At the beginning you don’t think of things and now I wish I had certain terms written in there just so we are all clear.
As to the shootings, it makes me want to never ever let my kids leave the house. So sad!
April 17th, 2007 at 9:58 am
That’s a great picture.
Sad days…
April 17th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Hear, hear…these are dark days indeed.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:37 am
The world is a scary place sometimes.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Big E – amen to that…Paas is fo real
apertome – this little fella would be the first, she just started putting up flyers and craigslist ads. this is a good solution for us too, that way we don’t have to pay for daycare!
tori – i’ll forward your email to dana
Chris – indeed
leelee – indeed indeed
mamatulip – sometimes?
April 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
My heart is broken. And unfortunately, Egan is so right…
I am truly glad that you have your beautiful family, Furious. You know what a wealthy man you are, don’t you?
April 17th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I was in the dr’s waiting room with my son (who has a dislocated elbow) shortly after that happened. I was there for 2 hours, hearing the story over and over on CNN. I guess I should be thankful for just a dislocated elbow.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Great picture of the family – made even more so by the striking tragedy that happened at VaTech. I think I’m still a little numb (except for that little fiery part over the news coverage).
Good luck with that Jefferson thing for the migraines – hope that they can help.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Thanks for the mention sir. I haven’t seen any news today, but that’s because I want to wait until there are some more facts about yesterday. All the speculation was driving me batty.
Let’s hope there will somehow be a silver lining to this senseless violence. It will most likely never end, but maybe we can prevent them from being worse. I have no idea what I’m saying now. I enjoy the bit about the boy reaching out to you. That’s a cool story.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:44 am
It’s so painful that it turns my stomach every time I hear or see something about it.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Kevin – my cup runneth over so much, my cup has a cup
Diesel – it’s all about perspective, you’re very right. Hope your son’s elbow feels better soon. I dislocated my shoulder last summer, not fun stuff
Marty – thanks, they make me look like I kinda know what I’m doing with a camera
egan – I kept away from the news myself, and I hear a lot of others doing the same. I don’t need the drive by the accident stare right now, I think I’m still digesting it all
corky – amen
April 18th, 2007 at 9:13 am
i look so sick and tired in that picture. i’m so tired of being so sick and so tired.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:57 am
reminds you that our trivial stuff we complain about, 30 other families would pray for instead.
So he thought you were his dad? Maybe a Maury Povich show is in the works
Furious, you are NOT the father…
April 18th, 2007 at 11:44 am
mrs. k – i still wouldn’t kick you of bed for crumbs. we’ll get into that headache specialist and they’ll fit you with a brand new head
PapaDog – you’ve got it right, it’s all about focusing your perspective, which is everyone’s reality