By Mike on the Bottom

Sometimes practicality isn’t the best thing in life.
 
Our youngest, 2-year-old Jay, ran to me today when I came home from work for lunch. He had a tiny blue star in his hand. He took the sticky little star placed it on my pants leg, just below my knee.
Then he ran to get another. And another. And another.

Finally, he stuck one on my shirt, near my heart, like a badge of honor.

And he said, “I love you, Daddy.”

Twenty minutes later, as I headed back to work, my wife Lisa said, “Did you know you have stars on your clothes?”

“Jay put them there,” I said.

She quickly picked them off, saying “These could ruin your clothes. They have glue on the back.”

When I got home tonight, Jay looked disappointed and said, “Where are your stars, Daddy?”

“Mommy took them off,” I said.

“Couldn’t you have said the wind blew them off?” Lisa said with a horrified chuckle.

“If I knew how, I would have sewn them on permanently,” I said.

Michael Zitz Beckham, aka Mike on the Bottom,  is a journalist, father of two boys, and a FOVG (Friend of V-Grrrl).     He’s a sensitive guy but doesn’t mind being treated as a sex object.  Lisa, his wife, is a jewelry designer. Check out her work at www.daisybright.com.

©2006 Michael Zitz Beckham.