Sloppy Love Mush

Awwwwe, I just had a lovey, fuzzy, feel good moment! As always, I can surely make a short story long, so here's some background: my husband, Nate is the funniest man and can sometimes be very exasperating... ...VERY exasperating. He's the biggest tease there ever was. He will grab you and tickle you and all sorts of things until you just want to scream (well, I'm usually the only one who wants to scream - everyone else loves it). He loves to wrestle with the kids and play games with them. He is by far much more physical than me. If you see him in public, he's such a "snob." Anti-social happens to be the term that describes him the best. He's perfectly happy staying home, but when we do go somewhere, he's very happy sitting by himself. The funny thing about him is that he attracts children like crazy.
Hmmm, do you think it's cause he's acts like a kid himself???

A couple years ago, he was sitting on the grass all by himself at a reunion and I took off to go find someone I knew to talk to. After awhile, I came back to inventory the kids and see if he's ok. I come back smack dab into a grass fight with our children and many others. I asked him if he knew who they were, and nope, no clue. That's Nate.

He's a police officer and since we live in Sun Valley, he sees many celebrities, because he's out and about so much. His thoughts and feelings on this??? Huh, whatever. (yes those are words he has used to describe these feelings.) One instance of this behavior is when Arnold S. (can't spell it - don't want to try) was running for Governer. We were talking about this and I was amazed at the career change. Nate said that he seems pretty down to earth. I took a double take, what? How would you know? Yep, he'd met the guy, let his children sit on the Police motorcycle and turn on the lights and sirens. When? Oh a couple months ago (now remember this was back when he was running for Governer). I wondered if he was planning to tell me and he just shrugged.

So (and here's the point of this post) after living here for over 13 years, he calls me today, all excited asking me to guess who he just saw at the Special Olympics (the police dept. is helping the athletes this week). I braced myself wondering who on earth could have made him excited enough to call me and tell me. It was Hallie, our youngest daughter! Her class went to watch a portion of the Special Olympics today and he got to see her. He gave her a drink of his soda while the kids in her class watched with wide eyes at the police man in his uniform favoring one of their classmates. And this makes him more excited than any celebrity or famous person. What a wonderful and unique husband! Dang, I love that punk!!! Ok, mushy over.