Remember her from Saturday Night Live? I loved Roseann Roseanna Danna! And then I found this picture of my daughter and thought, wow, there's a resemblance there! She's gonna kill me when she sees this, but hey, she's mad at me most of the time anyways...............
I was just thinking the other day about how kids are always "patrolling" us, their parents. When they are in grade school, they teach them that smoking and drinking is bad for you, so whenever Ky would see me with a drink in my hand, she just knew I was doing a bad, bad thing and was on my way to a drunken stupor! She never took her eyes off me. They also teach them that a parent can't hit them also. Boy, did I hear alot, "if you spank me, I'm gonna tell the teacher and they will come and take you away!" To which I replied: "no, they will come and take YOU away and when your looking back at me from the car, I will be waving to you and saying 'have a nice life in Social Services!'" But, in all fairness, I guess my siblings and I did it to our mom also. At 70 years old we thought she finally gave up smoking, only to find that she would slip off to a bathroom or the garage to grab a toke, like we couldn't smell it! But we still gave her a bad time and never gave in, we didn't want to make it easy for her to smoke after all. So, I guess it's all because we care about that person. Well, I only have one shot at someone taking care of me when I get older, so Ky after reading this, will you still patrol me into my golden, olden years? Yep, just what I thought! Just like Roseann Roseanna Danna always said, "are you crazy or something!"
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