A sad realization for the boys
Out strolling, the boys didn’t want to go home just yet, so they begged to go to Kroger. “There isn’t much food there anymore,” I told them. (The store’s final closure is scheduled for this evening.)
They begged to go anyway.
So, we walked up and down the all-but-empty aisles. The boys were shocked. Samuel cried all the way home.
“I’ll only drink water now,” he said.
“Why, Sammy?”
“Because Kroger is closing forever.”
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A few remarks about my other sons, so as to be fair to all.
Daniel was treated to another solo outing (that is, without his brothers). Here he is at the zoo, with his Grandpa Scott. Notice how he’s leashed.
Abel has learned to scoot forward on his belly. When not impeded, he beelines for the cats’ plates. He overturns them and licks the pellet-food.
Today he seized the Trollope novel I was reading and tore its cover.
It was The Warden, which details the misdeeds of churchmen and reformers. A novel of enduring relevance.
I’d turned to it after reading Hatch’s Democratization of American Christianity (for the group).
(Jane Austen is a clergy critic, too.)
They begged to go anyway.
So, we walked up and down the all-but-empty aisles. The boys were shocked. Samuel cried all the way home.
“I’ll only drink water now,” he said.
“Why, Sammy?”
“Because Kroger is closing forever.”
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
A few remarks about my other sons, so as to be fair to all.
Daniel was treated to another solo outing (that is, without his brothers). Here he is at the zoo, with his Grandpa Scott. Notice how he’s leashed.
Abel has learned to scoot forward on his belly. When not impeded, he beelines for the cats’ plates. He overturns them and licks the pellet-food.
Today he seized the Trollope novel I was reading and tore its cover.
It was The Warden, which details the misdeeds of churchmen and reformers. A novel of enduring relevance.
I’d turned to it after reading Hatch’s Democratization of American Christianity (for the group).
(Jane Austen is a clergy critic, too.)