Campfyre Stories

Some time back, Spawn was given a recliner + ottoman from his (almost) stepmother’s father.  It was leatherette and extremely comfortable and it was his chair.  He explained that it was his and he intended to take it with him when he left (for college or his own apartment or whatever).

And then it broke.  And he was devastated because this was his chair, so I promised that I would buy him a new recliner with some of the tax return money.  This past weekend, since I had the car, we went to the BIG store and picked out his new recliner (a much nicer and plushier one than the one he broke).

So we hunted down the sales associate and did all the pre-sales stuff, joking and laughing the entire time.  When we were standing in line, I mentioned that I was going to cry when Spawn finally did move out.  Not because he was moving, but because he would be taking the chair with him.  The SA was shocked and actually said that was something that he never expected to hear a mother say to her child (but he said it with a smile on his face). 

When we got to the cashier, we were still joking around and I was trying to include the cashier in our jocularity.  When he handed me the receipt to sign, I turned to Spawn and said "HA!  You see that?" pointing to the total amount, "And they say you can’t put a price on a mother’s love.  Well there it is, kiddo, right there."

Well I thought that the cashier was going to fall over when I said that.  If "I won’t miss YOU, but I’ll miss your chair" was bad, this was probably worse.  I suppose there’s some comfort in the fact that I said it to two different people probably mitigates the whole thing (Spawn, of course, knows me well enough to know that I was just playing).  When the cashier did recover, he chuckled, explained how long we have to reschedule the delivery and offered a warning of "So don’t get into trouble with your mom or she’ll delay your chair."

Heh.

So I was talking to Oz the other day and he mentioned how he was a contender for Father of the Year and why.  I told him why I was now out of the running and, when I saw Spawn later on, I conveyed this to him.  "You know why I’m out of the running for Mother of the Year, right?"  And he said…

"Because you already won it?"

Hot damn, but I do love my son.