joanie

I had to ask Scottie what TYVM meant, because now that I__e narrowed into her activities, I notice she is constantly text-messaging her friends, or at least I hope it__ her friends and not some perv in a bathrobe.__hank you very much,_ Scottie said, and for some reason, the fact that I didn__ get this made me feel completely besieged. It__ crazy how much fathers are supposed to know these days. I come from the school of thought where a dad__ absence is something to be counted on. Now I see all the men with camouflage diaper bags and babies hanging from their chests like little ship figureheads. When I was a young dad, I remember the girls sort of bothered me as babies, the way everyone raced around to accommodate them. The sight of Alex in her stroller would irritate me at times__he__ hang one of her toddler legs over the rim of the safety bar and slouch down in the seat. Joanie would bring her something and she__ shake her head, then Joanie would try again and again until an offering happened to work and Alex would snatch it from her hands. I__ look at Alex, finally complacent with her snack, convinced there was a grown person in there, fooling us all. Scottie would just point to things and grunt or scream. It felt like I was living with royalty. I told Joanie I__ wait until they were older to really get into them, and they grew and grew behind my back.