Project 365 – 6/365
Woke up this morning on a Scout Camping trip. Wesley and I made out way over to the lake where he went fishing for the first time. He learned to use the spin caster reel in about 10 minutes and earned himself the fishing pole. we didn;t catch anything but you wouldn’t know that by the smile on his face.
June 5, 2010
New Online Project Begins – Day One
So my 101 in 1001 Project is nearing its end and I really thought I would have gotten a few more things done from my list, but I guess it’s the day to day life that defines who we are and not our glamourized todo list. But it still makes me wonder what was I doing in all those 1001 days that prevented me from getting to all of the items on my list. Well that’s just what my new project intends to document.
So starting today and concluding on June 1 2011, I’m going to post one photograph from my day to day life that captures the “what” for that day. In addition to posting the photo, I’ll add some notes about the busy lives the Kovacs’ are living. This new project will be a kind of photo journal that tracks a year in the life.
So let’s start with today:
May 31, 2010
Memorial Day - May 31, 2010
It’s Memorial Day … good thing that we celebrated with everyone yesterday as a little rain had developed this afternoon. Aiden is still battling some strange bug giving him pretty good fevers but no other signficant symptoms. Back to work and school tomorrow.
We Are In Trouble …
So Saturday afternoon we were heading up to our first Durham Bulls game with my Cousin Steve visiting from Toronto. As we were driving on the highway Wesley calls from the back seat of van and says.
“Daddy, I know what you call a HOT girl.”
There was a moment of disbelief which hung in the van. No one could believe his was coming from our 6 year old.
I responded, “Wesley what do you mean by HOT?”
“I mean when a girl is very beautiful Daddy, not like when she is warm.”
Still silence hung in the air. I know I shouldn’t have but I had to ask. “Wesley. what do you call a very beautiful girl?”
“A Hottie!”
The three adults in the car were trying to maintain our composure. But I had to respond, after all his Mother is now snickering in the passenger seat, looking at me with the “You Wanted to Have All Boys” look again.”
“Wes, it’s not appropriate for you to call any girl HOT or a HOTTIE, they don’t like that. It’s disrespectful. They want you to see them as ……”
Wesley interrupts, “Does that mean I shouldn’t whistle at them either?” and then he let out a wolf whistle.
“No Wesley, that is also disrespectful.”
I turned to Lauren and said, “We’ve got a little Hugh Hefner in the back seat”.
We are in sooo much trouble.
You Want What for Christmas?
Last night we took the boys to Picture People for their semi-annual portraits. Afterwards they told us it would be 20 minutes so we decided to walk around the mall and maybe check out the wait to see Santa.
Indeed, even on a Friday night, the line for Santa was non-existent. So the boys took their spot in the queue waiting for one little boy to take a picture with the Big Man.
For the first time all three boys had no problem going up and talking to Santa. They climbed on his chair and his lap and took a great picture. Afterall they had just come from their latest photo shoot.
The Boys With Santa
While I’m proofing the photo with the help of Santa’s Elves, who by the way looked like they just rolled in fom a tractor-pull, Santa begins to ask the boys what they’d like for Christmas. As I finished up I walked over to listen and I hear Wesley say “I want a Bakugan, a Four-Wheeler, and a… a… a… Towel.”
Santa looks at me and says “A Towel?” with a puzzeled look on his face.
I shrugged my shoulders and said “I dunknow”.
Santa finished up with the boys who thanked him and wished him a safe flight on Christmas Eve.
On the way back through the mall I couldn’t help but ask Wes, “Why did you tell Santa you wanted a Towel”.
Clearly Wesley was very disappointted in himself, “Daddy I got nervous …. I couldn’t think of my third thing … I’ve got to go home and look at my list. Can we come back tomorrow after I check my list …. I don’t want Santa to bring me a Towel Daddy.”
For the record, the third thing on his list was a GI Joe Snake Eyes Action Figure …. he’s going to get Snake Eyes but he’s going to be wrapped in a towel. 
Wedding in Progress, Please be Considerate
So the boys and I tokk our bikes to Lake Benson park in Garner, NC. There they have a 1.2 mile paved bike trail that is mostly flat and it’s a great place to ride with the boys.
On our second circuit we noticed some people setting up a bunch of white chairs. By the start of our fourth circuit they were still setting up but the placed a sign in the middle of the bike path clearly meant to disuade people from going any further that said Wedding in Progress – Please be Considerate.
I find it ironic that someone can be so insanely self-absorbed to actually hold a wedding next to a bike path and expect to be able to close down a bike path in a public park. Please be considerate indeed.
So on our way back to the truck we had ride up the road instead of the bike path and Wesley was almost run over the rednecks coming into the park for the wedding.
If you choose to hold an event in a public park don’t expect the public to stop using it.
Daddy, What Does Chinese Sound Like?
So tonight on the way home from Soccer the boys, Aiden and Wesley, were debating what the Chinese language sounded like.
Aiden rattles off a string of nonsensical sounds and announces, ” That means ‘let the race begin’”.
Wesley counters by making a bunch of whooshing sounds and then informing me, “That means ‘the second challenge is a Dance Off!’”
Have I told you how much I love my Wesley. He is such a goof ball.
Disney’s Photopass a Do Over
The Kovacs clan took a trip to Walt Disney World in January whil the boys were tracked out of school. Before we left we received an offer to pre-purchase a Disney Photopass for $100 before we left. Not really understanding the Photopass system we disregarded the offer providing only slightly more consideration than a Shamwow commercial.
Boy was that a mistake. If I had one thing to do over about our trip I would have planned our meals and park visits a little more closely, but if I had two things to do over I would have pre-purchased that Photopass CD.
First here is how it works, when you get to the park on the first day you will see Disney photographers stationed at key spots throughout the park. Have one of them take your picture and they will give you, for free, a photopass card. Something like this
Sample Photopass Cards
This card contains a 16 character code on the back, which you should take a picture of or write down. (In case you lose the card).
With your card in hand you can roam the park and have your photos captured all over the park, with characters or shows and events. Each time you hand your card to the photographer and they will tag each photo they take with your card’s ID. Then when get home you can visit http://www.disneyphotopass.com enter your card number and all of the photos are available for purchase or download. A download costs $14.95 per picture, but remember that offer we turned down for the $99. That right we could have had ALL of the photos they took for $99 on a CD that they would mail to the house.
In our case we did not catch on to the photopass until too late in our visit. But a visit to the Jedi Training Academy in Disney’s Hollywood Studios resulted in 47 photos of the boys including these:
Padawan Aiden
Padawan Wesley
Wesley Fights Vader
These are much better photos than when I was able to get while I was video tapping the event from a different angle. So when I sat down to order these, they were going to cost me $44 just for these three pictures . . . . so I spent $125 for all of them (on the CD) . . . lesson learned. Next time we will pre-order the photopass CD and use the Bejesus out of the card in the park.
With a fixed price of $99 you can use the heck out of the card and get CD full of memories shot by a professional photographer. If you are planning a trip to Disney do not pass on this valuable offer.
The Chinese Strike A Blow Against Christmas
So my huge project to coming to a close at work and I’m finally ready to celebrate Christmas. So I decided we are really going to go grizwald this year with the lights.
Nothing is better in a recession than a completely gratuitous Christmas lghts display.
So today Wes and I pull out everylight we used last year, both inside and out and drag them all outside. Last year was the first year I very neatly rolled them up on extenstion cord hangers I wouldn’t have to spend half the morning untangling them. Aren’t I smart. Wes and I carefully laid every string on the ground and moved on to testing.
We had 20 strings of lights . . .and two worked! I could not beleive the number of lights that didn’t work so I changed my extension cord thinking something was wrong with the testing rig . . . Nope. The damn Chinese made holiday lights, which I purchase last year, had a 90% failure rate. Un flippin believable.
Wes was, of course, disappointed that we couldn’t decorate any more than one tree.
Wes and the Broken Lights
But like Clark Grizwald I won’t give up. I may kick the crap out of a plastic Santa but I won’t giveup!
Boys . . . . let’s go . . . .we’re going to Walmart!
What are You Thankful for?
Aiden (Age 6) - Food, My Mom and Dad, My Little Baby Brother, and my Large Little Brother, Phones, Computers and the Internet, Trees, and Cars
Wesley (Age 5) – Water, the Earth, Houses, our School, our Mom’s Hugs, Books and Reading, Coats, and our Teachers.
Benjamin (Age 2) (I changed the question to “What do you love?”) – To Eat, Cars, Elmo, and Momma.
And if you couldn’t tell this is what I’m most thankful for:
My Boys
A Wonderful Wife and Mother - Happy 11th Anniversary Sweetie!
My Family and Friends
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wesley Rides A Two Wheeler
It’s taken a couple weekends but Welsey is now riding his two wheeler. I’ve been taking him up to the park on Saturday’s to try riding the trail. Unlike Aiden who took just two pushes. Wesley seemed to like going 50 yards, and stopping. Waiting for me to come get him started again. But look at him now.
Here is another video of him later.
He’s not quite a driven as his older brother so it will take him a little longer to become completely comfortable with it.
You can mark # 7 off my 101 in a 1001 List.
Aiden Rides a Two Wheeler!
So today I took Aiden’s training wheels off of the new bike and we went up to the school determined to learn how to ride a two wheeler. Aiden was clearly a little concerned but he jumped at the chance anyway.
We started off having him peddle with me running next two him lightly holding the seat and whispering encouragements to him. Then I let go. Luckily we had brought wes with us so he distracted him a little as they sped down the path. After about 25 yards Aiden looked back and noticed I was gone. He slowed down and stopped.
After turning around we did it again this time after I let go he never stopped even after discovering that I wasn’t holding on anymore.
We are really very proud of him. He loved riding his bike today
I shot some video of him riding as well:
This is very similar to a shot taken of me after I learned to ride in my cousins driveway:
Wes was a big help all day as he played the hare for Aiden to keep up with. Great Job Wes. wesley added that he will learn to ride a two wheeler in September, when his birthday comes around . . . I think he’s looking for a new bike!
Why We Celebrate Independence Day! Video
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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Stephen J. Kovacs 1922 – 2008
My Grandfather, Stephen Joesph Kovacs, passed away this morning. He was married to Roberta Childers Kovacs who proceeded him on his heavenly journey many years ago. They had two sons, my father Robert and my uncle John.
My Grandfather was my first hero. Though certainly not a perfect man, to me he represented my history, where I came from. Because much of my life was spent distant from my mother’s family, any reflection on my childhood is measured by my memories of him. I recall so little of my childhood that at times I wonder if I were hatched as a self-involved 13 year old boy. But frequently my memories of him will remind me of earlier times. Those memories must stand out so for a reason, perhaps because they represented some of the happiest moments of my childhood.
From spending Chrstmas at his house looking at the elaborate train sets he would create for us. I can recall him saying frequently that “its not Christmas without a train set”. To summer trips to Kings Dominion where we rode his beloved Mighty Mouse Roller coaster together and he would swing the Parrots out over the lake as the ride would spin. To Sundays spent at his house watching football as he always had a supply of Coke and sumersausage with chips for snacking and he would teach us math on scrap pieces of paper.
To the stories . . . . oh how I have, and will, miss those stories. From hearing him tell of the day the stock market crashed, how the “Hunks” made illegal liquor during prohibition and made the kids stomp cabbage into sauerkraut, to his joining the Civilian Conservation Corps and working in Glacier National Park in Montana. To enlisting in the Marine Corps in World War Two where we both learned to lament the cost of war. He on Tarawa and Guadal Cannal and I at his feet listening so many years later. He was awarded the Purple Heart on Tarawaas part of the second wave of Marines sent ashore. And later joined the Army on the way to Korea. Where he spent some time working in Tokyo Army Hospital in Japan. And yes there was the Syphilis story . . .which no one heard more often than Lauren.
I think he is the one that taught me about the pleasure of a cup of coffee after a good meal and the protection provided by a glass of orange juice in the morning. That you could “have what ever you wanted” so long as you cleaned up after yourself and didn’t waste what you were given.
I attribute my willingness to give people a second chance to my Grandmother’s example and no one stressed her capacity to forgive more than my Grandfather. But she did and we are all better off for it. As I said he was not perfect and the stories . . .no lessons . . . . he shared with me, especially as I got older, were not always rosy tales. But there is something to be learned from each of them. I know he struggled at times with internal demons that questioned if he had done enough to earn the love that was shared with him. And I think he felt as though he was atoning for his sins.
My father called me this moring to tell me things were not going well and I beleive that he passed while my father was speaking to me. I went to the nursing home this morning even after receiving a second call a couple of minutes later from my Mom telling me he had passed. On my way there I was warmly recalling my memories of him and then realized that his struggle to put his demons to sleep was now over but more importantly I realized that he had never . . .ever . . . let ME down. While he struggled with some . . .my memories of him are warm and full of love, and his lessons are intact.
His love for me and my family was unassailable . . . he owed me nothing and still never let me down.
As I sat in his room today with his remains, I reached over and picked up the New Testament from the top of the TV. I beleive what God wants you to know you can find by opening the Book to a random page and when I did and this was the first thing I read:
Luke 12:3
Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops
I take this to be God’s reassuring message that my Grandfather’s request for his mercy and forgiveness has been heard and that it has been my duty to ensure it was proclaimed from the rooftops! Thank you God for hearing his prayers and mine!
I Love My Pop-Pop and one day I lookforward to hearing his tales again and sharing with him some of my own.
Love You Pops and I Already Miss You!
Political Beginnings . . . The Wisdom of Children
So last weekend I had all three boys for a few hours and decided that I would go food shopping. I know you think I’m crazy but the boys are pretty good when Dad’s the one holding the leash.
So I after I’ve loaded the groceries and Aiden and Wesley have buckled themselves into their booster seats. I close up the car and dutifully return the cart to the cart corral. I pick up the baby and head back to the van. Just as I am opening the door I hear the tail end of Aiden(6) giving Wesley(4) a lecture on why we fly the flag on Memorial Day. I hear Aiden wrap up by saying ” and that’s why we fly the flag on Memorial Day.” Intrigued I ask Aiden what he was telling Wes about Memorial Day. What follows is the actual conversation that occurred.
He said that he told Wes “We fly the flag on Memorial Day to remember the soldiers who have died.” Wow, I think what an amazing kid and I tell him that’s right. But then he goes on . . . “Daddy why do soldiers die?”
I told Aiden that “our country has soldiers to protect us from people who might want to hurt us, and that it is a very dangerous job. So dangerous that soldiers can die while fighting to protect us and the country. ”
He continued ” Daddy I don’t think we should have any soldiers if that means they will die”.
I asked him, “what would happen if we didn’t have soldiers to protect us, what would happen if an army from somewhere else wanted to hurt us? Without our soldiers there would be no one to protect us and even more people might die.”
Aiden thought quietly for a minute then said, “Daddy we should talk to the Law-ers”.
“Law-ers???” I asked,
“Yes Daddy the people who make laws. We should go talk to the Law-ers”, he said.
“Why?”
“Daddy we should go talk to them to make sure our soldiers have the best guns and tanks . . . . so they will be safe.”
“That’s right buddy we should . . . . .and buddy . . . “
“Yeah Daddy”
“Welcome to the Republican Party”, I said.
Spring Cleaning Your MySpace Page . . The Contest!
Please for the love of God update your Myspace page. It’s spring, update your lay out, your status update, your profile song, your pictures . . .anything.
Do you still have those photos of you at the Halloween Party on your myspace page? It’s time to update them. Your friends care about you, all except for Tom, they want to know what you are doing.
Let’s have a contest. Post a reply showing your original MySpace page and your updated one. Let’s see who can create the most improved MySpace page. Then send this blog to your friends and challenge them!
Kris
Message From Col Wessup
So I’ve had this idea for a while. To recreate famous scences from famous movies but do it with kid actors. So today I actually took a swing at having my son Wes recreate that famous speech by Jack Nicholson, as Col. Jessup, in A Few Good Men!
Here is the text from the original scene:
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know — that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.”
Here’s Wes be sure to stay through the end I’ve included some other famous movie quotes and bloopers:
It was alot of fun and Wes loved seeing himself on the computer . . Because someone is bound to ask I created the video using Ulead Video Studio and shot the raw footage on a Sony Digital Handycam(DCR-SR40).
Kris
Happy Thanksgiving
Time To Get Your Turkey On!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Love Kris~Lauren~Aiden~Wesley~Ben
I’m On My Way . . . Home Sweet Home
I’m going to risk sounding like a cry baby for the next few minutes so please pardon the interruption.
I’ve been on the road for 10 days now, first Vegas for a week . . . then LA for four days . . . and lastly Portland Oregon for two days. Physically I’m exhausted I feel like my body has plain worn out. It’s been valuable but I can tell you that I will never do such a concentrated bunch of travel again. On top of the schedule, every vendor wanted to the the dinner and drinks things and each day I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier and earlier, often without success, as the wear and tear had built up.
I can’t fathom working on the road like this for a living. Bouncing from City to City trying to keep up the facade of having fun for each new vendor/client you meet. It’s just not worth it. It’s like the month of November has zipped past. IT really hit me when we started hearing Christmas music in LA with 75 degree temperatures. And now Thanksgiving is just two more days away.
So In that spirit let me tell you what I am thankful for:
1. My Family
I have missed them so much in the last ten days; their hugs, kisses, laughter, the trouble they can get into, talking with them, snuggling with them, saying their prayers with them at night and scooping them up when I get home from work. While I’ve seen alot of places on my travels there nothing better than the view “from my front door looking in”.
Video: Lonestar – “My Front Porch Looking In”
Everything else is a distant second!
dk
Kovacs Family Checking Out!
So I spent the weekend helping my parents move out of the house I grew up in. It was really surreal to go through the house and the rush of memories that came back as I reminisced with my family. Not to mention the rush of soreness and pain that actually comes from moving so much crap.
My brother Steve Helping on Moving Day
Eventually the reinforcements arrived to help.
Mat and Steve fight over who is going to take the next heavy thing to the truck. and I think Matt is hiding behind the dolly.
Steve and Dad in the bar as we wait for our table at Uno’s for dinner.
Bross and Matt with us in the bar STILL waiting for our table . . . . 25 Minutes My Ass!
After dinner we went back and finished packing up the house. It was weird walking out of the house you grew up in and knowing that you won’t be back. Now someone else will call it home and begin building their memories there. We weren’t the first family in the house and now we know we won’t be the last. It is kinda cool that the little sister of a guy I knew in school will now own the house but they won’t appreciate the long history we built there. They like us will begin building their ideas of home in a new place. I sincerely hope that they find as much happiness and love in that wonderful old house as we found so many years ago.
So this the Kovacs family checking out.
The Kovacs Family Checking Out . . . . .23 Years Older . . .
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