Monday, December 24, 2018

The One Child Left Behind


Helmet or bubble wrap? Helmet or bubble wrap...

I’m trying to figure out Jesse’s Hanukkah gift this year and it comes down to a shiny new Riddell football helmet – or a full bubble wrap body suit. 

I wouldn’t have considered either of these if it wasn’t for a gift that I gave her a long, long time ago. The gift of highly-flawed DNA. Heredity is a fickle thing apparently. Despite being blessed with most of our best traits – Shelly’s looks and Shelly’s brains – Jesse somehow got stuck with my feeble excuse for motor coordination. It’s really the only way that we can explain her dozen or so trips to the hospital over the last few years. 
 
Jake’s assessment, “A baby giraffe in heels is less clumsy than you, JD. I’m still scratching my head over how you got into that little incident with the ATV a few years back.”  

SERIOUSLY?? You crash one 4-wheeler into one telephone pole one time and you’re labeled for life. 

How bad could it have been anyway? I hardly even remember it.