We hear a lot about the Man-Card. It's a big deal in a house full of boys doing their best to grow into men. Evidently, the Man-Card is what proves your masculinity. We don't know of anything weird that they do to add testosterone points, by the way. It's just a given that they have The Card.
But The Card can be temporarily lost. When a newly adolescent's voice pitches up a few octaves, we'll hear one of the other, older brothers threaten to "take away his Man-Card." Or when a boy comes into the kitchen wearing a pink shirt, inveritably someone will ask if he still has his Man-Card. These boys love to good-naturedly tease each other. They get it from their dad, I'm sure.
An anonymous child came home from a double date and told me that he had lost his Man-Card. Evidently there was some X-Box playing going on at the date, and he and the other boy had been conned into playing a Disney Princess dance-along game. My boy, dancing like a princess. Well.
Man, I wish I had been there to see that one!
A little place where I record all the fun and odd and mundane goings-on of this wonderful life I share with my big family...
and then I take a nap.
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