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Me and Miah

Jeff found this photo of me and Miah from four years ago at backstage at Steubenville West. It blows my mind to think that this little baby is going to be in Kindergarten in a couple weeks. And no doubt, she will be the best dressed in her entire class. She is one of the most furiously fashionable people I know. Me? I still wear that brown shirt.

While our Stacey and Candyce were having a Bible study early this morning, Jeff and I hopped in his Porsche and zoomed to Agritopia to hang out at Joe’s Farm Grill and The Coffee Shop. The best part is that he had me drive. It was quite a machine. On the way home, we explored San Tan Village, a new outdoor shopping destination in Gilbert along a new stretch of the 202. It will probably make the next edition of Suburban Shopping that Doesn’t Suck.

When I was a kid, my grownup neighbor Brian always made time to entertain me and my brothers and sisters with jokes, funny stories, or goofy antics. He brought so much joy to us as kids. Now all of my brothers and sisters are grownup, but we still laugh and smile when we remember how Brian made time to entertain us. How wonderful is that? He gave us twenty years of laughter.

So I’m trying to keep that tradition going. Until the day I die, it will be top priority for me to make children laugh. So when Jeff, Stacey, and little Miah came over our house for dinner, I told Miah to be ready to party in the pool. I can’t say that I looked very tough playing children’s games in my backyard pool, but I’m okay with that. Looking cool is overrated.

After dinner I pulled out some old magazines to show Jeff and Stacey my life at the turn of the century (that is, the year 2000.) It was like show and tell for grown ups. “Here’s me in Rolling Stone…Teen People…YM…Seventeen…TV Guide.” These were artifacts I unearthed from the trunk Mom and Dad found in their basement.

We finished the night by watching a recording of my friend Robert win The Price is Right. I’ll write more about that later.