bless 'em

“How thoughtful,” she said.

Last summer while on a camping trip, I heated up some water, filled an old fashioned rubber “hot water bottle” and put it in Miriam’s bed a while before we went to bed. This part of the country gets cool to cold at night, even after a very hot day, and Miriam has perennially cold feet.

“How thoughtful of you,” she purred.

Actually, I thought (and said out loud): “No this is an act of pure selfishness!”

I went on to explain that the hot water bottle would keep her cold feet off my legs when we went to bed! That is the story I told her, but of course I was looking after her.

So I tease my wonderful daughters who say they are going to help me through the winter by coming to visit periodically. It is wonderful for them to be so considerate of dear old dad (and mom), but I can tease them too.

I could say they want to keep me going and keep me healthy because that is easier than taking care of their mother without me, and while there might be a point there, in truth they are good kids looking after their parents.

Bless ‘em.