Daughters

We found out last week that our daughter is expecting again. It's going to be a girl! Until I was nine, I thought girls were just soft boys! Young sons are awkward. They evoke pity, not humor. At any rate she is due the end of April. Their family grows. Very soon, Seth (her husband) will learn that a family is a unit assembled to spend money the head of the family hasn't earned yet.

When Noelle was little she was around trucks and equipment from time to time, since she came to my office and the warehouse area fairly often. One Saturday the two of us were at King Soopers in Denver waiting in line to pay for some milk or something. The lady in line in front of us, was built like a truck. I'm sure nobody ever passed on her the right. In fact, I'm sure that when she got on a scale, she got two fortunes! At any rate, we're in line and this lady's pager goes off. Noelle said, "Lookout Dad, she's backing up!"

Tyler found this photo of Noelle taken right before an opera performance in Memphis with Opera Memphis about 6 or 7 years ago. For our young lady, this was a special time.

Girls are special though. I heard a story about little Beth who was sitting with some of the ladies of her mother's bridge club, waiting for her mother to finish getting ready for a game. One woman looked at Beth and said to the ladies, "Not too P-R-E-T-T-Y." Beth replied, "No, but awfully S-M-A-R-T." Don't try to fool 'em.