california

We drove back from Utah to California yesterday. Some people think we're crazy for making the drive with a kid, but, frankly, he loves it. Why?

"I get to watch movies all day long."

Yep, we got him a mini-DVD player. This from parents who got The Alphabet Game when we drove all day long as kids.

So when Juma complains that the screen on the DVD player is at a bad angle, or the previews won't get over fast enough, or he can't get his right earphone to sit just so on his ear, and tell him, "Well, Juma, I'm really not going to listen to you complain about stuff like that, because you know what? When I was a kid, and we drove in the car with all my siblings, between Washington and Utah, do you know what I got to pass the time? A cup to throw up in. So quit your whining or I'll turn off the movie and we can play Name That Smell or Count the Sagebrush. You don't know how good you've got it, boy!"

I might as well be telling him about how I walked to school uphill, both ways, through the snow even in May, without shoes. I am officially a parent.