"Are you wearing your best piercings?" I asked my son.
"Ha-ha." I look. He is.
I never thought I'd say those words but hell, there's a lot of things you think you'd never say before you have kids.
I don my fake pearls [I've turned into my mother except I haven't because hers were real! Figures.]
My husband, pain-free for a few days now, got all cleaned up yesterday meaning cutting all the hairs poking out of all the orifices that men in their fifties grow endlessly. He swapped out his cowboy boots for nice tennis shoes for church. My son is going with us today because it's the one day in the year the Pastor says, "Invite your friends! Invite your family!" So I did. Here we go.
My son won't stand up when they ask who is new today.
He pulls his arms inside his shirt because he's cold.
He stares at his feet and fiddles with his toes. He looks around apathetically and bored. He doesn't try to sing. He doesn't clap his hands. He doesn't pay attention to the Pastor and her sermon today.
Love means never having to say out loud: "God you're a pain in the ass today."
So, I wrote a Haiku in honor of my son going to church with us today:
It's still the same, dude:
No, you can't get a tattoo.
Church conversation.
Then my son wrote a Haiku back to me:
I'm getting one, Mom
You're still not the boss of me.
Can I borrow $10.00?
Piercings appropriate for church. And bank hold-ups.
Fake pearls even though my mother owns real ones.
Hair trimmed including nose and ears.
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Loved the pictures at the end--too funny!
God looks at the heart, not at the piercings or tattoes. :)
So glad to read that your husband is feeling a bit better. Fingers crossed for him.
I must be weird-- neither of my sons wanted tattoos or piercings, although the younger one bought a "Charlie (Manson) Don't Surf!" T-shirt, bless his heart...
-R-
Glad your DH is feeling good.
Love this post.
And I just made GoingaApe a favorite based on that comment.
Ken had some pain free days. Respite! I'm grateful: you both deserve it.
I'm with everyone else here. The kid gets big points for both showing up AND writing clever haiku!
Some of mine are pierced. Some of mine are tattooed. Some of mine are neither. And some of mine are Both! Like Gwendolyn said, God looks at the heart, not the body.
"...on His thigh He has a name written, "King of Kings, and Lord of Lords." (Revelation 19:16)
There may be five left that wear a tie. maybe ten that wear a sports coart. I'm always to blame. My wife is greatful when I throw on western boots that don't look like they're centurys old and broken down.
My attitude is god he/she is looking into my sole people; are looking at what i wear. My step daughter is now a full fledged union assistant lighting designer working with broadway shows on the road. pierced and tattooed as her generation should be. She regularly finds a church she likes in the towns that she's in. It's probably easier for them now that she's out of the waist lenght blue hair phase; texas had an issue with that.
i got called a leprecon, she didn't ike smurf
NEVER EVER allow a pastor around your child when you are not there to protect him/her.
So glad your hubby has been pain free for a few days - hope that continues....
And I agree with Placebostudman - the kid went inside - he gets credit.
Great post and richly deserving of an EP! Love it!
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