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Sam's Story: Week 97 December 5, 2005
I love my wife dearly, but one of her personality traits is that she can be particular and often has to have things just right. One might even go so far as to call her "persnickety" though don't tell her I said so. For example, she cannot stand it if the the two halves of the bedroom curtains are not pulled all the way. If there's even a tiny gap between them, there's a problem. I'm not saying I lounge at the other end of the Fastidiousness Scale at "slobbish," but that kind of thing just does not bother me. Ger, however, would literally be unable to sleep, knowing that the curtains are JUST NOT RIGHT. After lying there awake thinking about it, she'd finally have to rouse herself to wake me up and make me go fix them, because I'm supposed to care more about that kind of thing than I do. Jamie.
There has been a delicate balance between us on these kinds of issues, like two people perched on a playground teeter-totter, but I fear that something is going to soon come down on Ger's side of the fulcrum like a sledge hammer. And that adorable littler sledge hammer's name is "Samantha." Seriously, she's very particular. Sometimes when I'm following her up the stairs she'll stop dead in her tracks and point to a little piece of lint. She'll then go "Eeeehhh. Eeeeeaaaahh! EEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" until I stoop down and pick it up. Or if she's eating pasta with her hands she'll often try to get me to clean her digits off between every bite. Other times when I try to hand her something she'll have her hands full with a sippy cup, and must run across the room to put it in its propper place on the kitchen table. Because just dropping it on the floor or putting it on the coffee table would be inappropriate. Daddy.
On the bright side, maybe she'll readily take to doing household cleaning. Here's some pictures.
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Though I don't have a picture of it here, Ger took Sam to get her portrait made with Santa Claus. All things told, it seems to have gone just fine and there was no hysterical shrieking from Sam over the horrible bearded man that Mommy appeared to be giving her away to. Not that I was hoping for that kind of thing, but at least I'd have been able to submit Sam's picture to this photo gallery, which just really cracks me up. You might also note that Sam really loves the Merry-Go-Rounds. Well, we don't know that for sure, as she has remained silent on the issue, but one thing is for sure: We love putting her on them and taking pictures.
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Posted by Ger on December 5, 2005 7:45 PM:
Correction: Usually I get up and fix the curtains myself, or better yet, close them myself since you do not pay as much attention to these things! : )