RDF:![[Valid RSS]](http://validator.w3.org/feed/images/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
A Short, Personal Interlude
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Imperial Thoughts, Life in the Empire1:28 PM
I don’t often talk about the family. This is only because I’m a private kind of person and, I suppose, a bit paranoid about “letting it all hang out” on the Internet, particularly these days when passing brownshirts might catch on and decide to demonstrate their “tolerance” and “Hope and Change!” by destroying my life like they have tried to destroy people like Joe the Plumber.
Which is sad, because I love to talk about my family. I love them more than life and I am so very, very proud of them.
One such time when my heart skipped a beat and I choked up about how blessed I am was recently. My Heirs have been going through election stuff in 1st grade because, well, we have an election coming up, which makes it sort of relevant. All that stuff about how elections work and how your right to vote is very, very important and how you need to exercise it no matter what. I appreciate that. We’ve already taught them that, but I don’t mind the reinforcement one little bit.
So, anyway, the oldest Heir (by all of two minutes) is sitting there with me, asking me about the candidates in this election, and somehow the conversation drifts to whether they have families too. He asks me whether the Obamessiah has any siblings and I answer, truthfully, that I only know about a half-brother living in Africa on a dollar a month, relying on the kindnesses of strangers to get by.
“Doesn’t Obama have money?”, he asks me.
“Sure”, I say, “more than we’ll probably ever have.”
“Why doesn’t he give some of it to his brother, then?”
“I don’t know. I guess he doesn’t want to.”
The Heir thinks about that for a moment and then says: “Well, dad, when I grow up and make a lot of money, if I make a thousand dollars, I could send them to his brother so he could have a house and some food to eat.”
See? That’s redistributing wealth done the right way. Not at the point of a gun, but because my kid thought that he wanted to help this guy that he didn’t even know.
Yeah. I choked up alright. Great kid. Here we are, stuck in shit so far it’s creeping into our nostrils, yet he still has the heart to feel for a complete stranger. A complete stranger whose own brother doesn’t give a shit, I might add. Hearts of pure gold, both of them. If there’s anything that I might have had a hand in teaching them that I feel proud of, that would be it.
Like the other day when I was driving them to school and the old clunker with its broken clutch that I can’t afford to repair was giving me the usual trouble while I was trying to match the revs and get it in gear anyway, and they both offered to break their piggy banks they’ve been saving up in so I could buy a new one. Never mind that their combined savings wouldn’t do a bit of good and that they’d been saving up for stuff they desperately want for themselves, they just wanted to help out old daddy.
I love them. I love them so much.
OK, the room is getting dusty, so I’ll sign off.
Thatisall.
Entries (RSS)
I know son - they’re my grandkids - and I love them to death, and they are great - kids don’t think in a grow-up-way - thank Heaven for little boys and girls. Keep them that way - and everything will turn out right.
Love
Farmor
And 1.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:36 PMUsing
Awwww… Mish, I choked up! That’s so sweet! You have some awesome good kids there. :em03:
My Redhead would be like, “Mom, doesn’t he have a JOB? I mean, I have to clean the bathrooms for my allowance!” *sniff*
October 28th, 2008 at 1:37 PMUsing
And every time you start to feel down–about the job, the election, the world–just remember how truly lucky you REALLY are.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:39 PMFamily is everything.
And with them, you are a very wealthy man, Misha….
Using
Well said Boss. Well said.
Im sure help is on the way.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:42 PMUsing
Can’t wait to give those two angels a hug for the first time in a few weeks. Between Red and I and the extended family members….they’re gonna be spoiled rotten! :em95:
You and the Empress have done a wonderful job with them Misha. They’re well on their way to being rock solid citizens and we thank you. :em04: :em69:
October 28th, 2008 at 1:49 PMUsing
Pretty soon they’ll be like my son, in his late teens. Occasionally he’ll stop and for no reason at all say, “Mom, I’m gonna get a great job when I get older and take care of you, get you anything you want.”
When they drive home from college because they wanted to just spend the weekend with you - for no other reason. When they buy you presents on your birthday and Christmas and you know they don’t have the money to do that. When you have an accident and they come running in hysterics because they think you’re hurt. When they can’t wait to have you meet your new grandchild, who you will have even more fun with because you’re not responsible on a minute-by-minute basis for raising them.
That’s when you know all the kid-raising joy, work, and bullshit was worth every minute. To see them grow up to be someone you’re proud of and you love with all your heart. To have someone say they want to take care of you, love you, help you out as you get older. You won’t end up sick, all alone in a shithole with a friggin pet, the TV and a bunch of old memories. You’ll die surrounded by generations of people who love you. A whole family you created.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:57 PMUsing
Boss, ya done good.
* snif *
October 28th, 2008 at 2:37 PMUsing
Damn, AHW -
How do I follow that?
- MuscleDaddy
October 28th, 2008 at 2:39 PMUsing
Nothing gives you a better feeling than helping someone in need. Your kids are great!
You just have to wonder about Obama’s lack of concern for his extended family. Helping them would be a drop in the bucket for someone with his kind of money. And it’s really weird that he has no family around him during the campaign, just wife and kids. The other candidates are surrounded by family.
Our family is everything to us too.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:40 PMUsing
The things your kids do never fail to surprise, and as long as they are pleasant ones, its even better. The little one automatically gets up off the stairs and stands next to me in the morning when we pray before they leave, and the big one thanked me last night for helping him to actually understand his math homework. The most satisfying thing of late? We all sat down to watch the latest Indiana Jones DVD on Saturday night, and they actually watched it, and ate popcorn. The best ‘family’ moment we have had in a very long time.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:47 PMUsing
Nicki,
MuscleBaby-The-Elder (9) worked out the difference a couple of years ago between:
- Guys standing on the side of the road, holding signs for stores/apartments
and
- Guys standing on the side of the road, holding signs that say ‘Alms for the Poor’
(or words to that effect).
Now, whenever she sees able-bodied member of the latter-variety, she always launches into “Daddy, why doesn’t he get a job holding a regular sign?”
Same kid can turn right around and ask if she can send her change to the “starving babies on TV”.
All I can do is shake my head and make sure to look-both-ways crossing the street - ’cause I hella-sure must have used up all my luck by now.
- MuscleDaddy
October 28th, 2008 at 2:49 PMUsing
That iw what we struggle for. What we sacrifice and maybe fight for.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:50 PMUsing
Something Democratic politicians and operatives don’t get when they make their cynical plays toward religiosity: God doesn’t care about the poor being fed. He cares that you feed them.
Charity is for the giver, not the recipient. If you can’t give of yourself, your soul is empty. No, Obama, making someone else give of themselves while you keep your share doesn’t count.
The government doesn’t have a soul. If it did, it would be so black as to make Satan genuflect. What it takes, it takes at the point of a gun. Where it redistributes, it does with only a care for preserving its offices and extending its reach. When it helps, it does so haphazardly, concerned mostly with socking away money to its friends and vanity projects, heedless of (indeed, afraid of) solving those problems that are its raison d’etre. When it hurts, it celebrates inwardly as it can outwardly justify demanding more money.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:59 PMUsing
Dang Misha,
N’ here I set, surrounded by just the right tools, in just the right garage, at the address known 5 county’s ’round as “That Shady Place were Old Station Wagons come to die”,, with the stereo cranked n’ the beer’s never far.
Feelin’ a tad helpless here,, clutches, p-plates n’ throw out bearin’s ain’t nuthin,,, here.
I’d RnR (NOT the military RnR) your stuff just to listen to the Royal Banter.
*Sigh*
Them Heirs,, Art Linkletter had a spot on his show that highlighted the innocent, observant, incredibly practical and heartfelt things kids could never be coached into saying, but blurted, to everyone’s amazement.
Yours are right in there with the best.
The more kids that I see like Yours, Sire, the better I feel about the future.
For everything we ever worked, planned, sweated or bled for, they’re the most important of all.
We just gotta’ figure out when to get the hell out’a their way! (The good ones anyhoo.)
You get the love n’ joy they bring ya,,
I’ll be happy with the hope they bring us.
*Klink-klink*
October 28th, 2008 at 3:47 PMUsing
Why am I not surprised one bit, I can even bet which one it was too. You and The Empress have done a fine job raisin’ the next generation to carry on the torch, when we’re too old to do much more than provide moral support.
A truly fine and proud Parent Moment, Brother.
See ya’ tonight !!!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:57 PMUsing
I felt the same way at the St. Louis airport last week as I watched my daughter walk away towards her flight to AIT in California. She looked so dawg gone tiny in her ACU’s compared to the green monsters with duffel bags walking next to her. But she walked erect with her head high, all 110 pounds of her.
I looked at my wife and saw the tears lurking in her eyes. I felt them in mine.
I still feel them.
Kids…
*sigh*
October 28th, 2008 at 4:01 PMUsing
Sig!
That comes as close as yer gonna get to what I meant by knowin’ when to get out of their way!
Congrats a-plenty to you, and the best of luck to her!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:12 PMUsing
Sire, that was excellent. Excellent! My Heavens, you’ve bred more members of that VRWC! This is what America IS. In the HEARTLAND. Be proud, indeed.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:03 PMUsing
Oh you’ve raised your kids right-tell them to join the scouts.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:53 PMSig94-you’ve done a good job also- :em04: your daughter. BTW, what IS AIT
Using
Gee, I wonder if Obama and his brother’s relationship is a sign of things to come if the Ivy League liberal illuminati take over the country in the months to come!
October 28th, 2008 at 8:13 PMUsing
California Man Defending Home From Theft Killed by Police
Some Castle
October 29th, 2008 at 12:22 AMUsing
Yeah, that’s what I used to tell my Mom also. Then I up and joined the Navy and moved half the country away, and didn’t move back when I retired. She used to laugh when I’d tell her that, now I know why. My youngest tells my wife the same thing now, and I can’t help but laugh.
October 29th, 2008 at 6:56 PMUsing
Mine too.
Thanks for sharing that. :em04: :em69:
October 30th, 2008 at 7:35 PMUsing
You got to me, Misha…I understand. Eighteen years ago when I was going through rehab, my seven year old daughter drew her sick daddy a picture to cheer him up, a picture given to him by his wife, for kids weren’t permitted in detox. A crayon drawn picture of Bugs Bunny…..
October 30th, 2008 at 8:01 PMI still have it….in my gun safe…….
Using
I wonder why members of Obama’s family, i.e. his sister, aunts and uncles don’t occasionally show up to give their support. He speaks about them fondly in his book, but it stops there. This very liberal, left-wing illuminati seems very detached and you ask whether he might handle our concerns the same way. He also appears to be very distant toward his aunt and uncle and relatives in Kenya. Would it be asking too much for him to write and keep in touch occasionally?
October 31st, 2008 at 2:45 AMUsing