The last several weeks have been so hectic and I’ve been such an absent wife that Husban-dito and I had the following conversation recently:
- CWG: Hey, you look different!
- ‘Dito: (eye roll)
- CWG: I can’t put my finger on it…(staring intently at ‘Dito). Wait!!! You’re growing a BEARD!!!!!!
- ‘Dito: (eye roll)
It should be noted that the beard was several days old by the time I noticed it, hence the mad eye rolling by ‘Dito. In my own defense, lest you think me unobservant and/or blind, Husban-dito goes to bed super-early and gets up at the ungodly (for CWG) hour of 5 am.
I’d been so busy during the ‘beard harvesting week’, coming in late each night and stumbling into bed in the dark. Husban-dito was already gone when I got up each morning, explaining why I missed it!
The beard isn’t a new thing; Husban-dito usually grows one when we take our annual road trip each July. I can only imagine that he’s getting a jump on this year’s beard, starting a few weeks early.
So, what do you think of the beard? We spent last Sunday at my sister’s–Ant and I mainly played with my beatnik* nephew who told Uncle Ant his beard looked like a muskrat.
All the while, Matt worked his little-kid magic on Ant–look at that wistful stare! Can my mother dare to hope for grandchildren from Camp CWG?
I think Ant was actually brainstorming a money-making scheme so he can retire and get corporate sponsors to set us up for life.
*Disguised to protect the innocent.
“Can my mother dare to hope for grandchildren from Camp CWG? ” surely you jest…think of the blog possibilities LOL
P.S. ‘Dito looks pretty bad a** with the beard
Little French kids are anything but innocent, in my experience.
Well, it is hard to pinpoint the moment that “scruff” becomes an actual beard. I might have missed that moment too, if it were Chris.
Tell him to (a la “School of Rock”) STEP OFF.
Kind of like when a tadpole stops being a tadpole and is definitely a frog?
I mean this as a compliment. Your husband kind of looks like Axl Rose. But in the good Axl days. Not like now.
Having never seen a muskrat, I cannot comment on your nephew’s opinion, but I do like a bearded man. My own husband has been nude-of-face only once since he first grew his beard in 1994, and we all fell about laughing so much, he grew it back the next day.
join us dear ant and nat!!