Love is...

So, it's late on a Thursday evening, but the kids have no school the next day. It's past bedtime but I (we) let them stay up and watch a little Noggin. Paige falls asleep in the sofa in about 8 minutes. I carry her up to bed, and go back downstairs to check on Trey. He's sitting watching TV, not paying attention to anything else. So, I go in the pantry and get out the hot air popper.

Sneak to the kitchen, melt some Nucoa and turn on the popper. Wham-o into the kitchen comes a manic 6 year old, eyes as wide as saucers and a look of bewilderment on his face. "POPCORN?!?!" he shouts. As I nod yes, his face breaks into one of the the biggest grins I've ever seen. He blurts "Man am I ever lucky to be up this late" and then he breaks into a happy dance that looked sort of Snoopy dancing to Vince Guaraldi.

So, we're chilling on the floor and asks for some cold apple juice. I stand up and think "I know what would make his night" so, instead of apple juice I head to the garage fridge and grab 2 diet 7-ups. I come back in, hold up the can and say "Will this do?" and he just giggles and nods yes. It was like I had offered him the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. He stits down next to the popcorn bowl, with his soda and says "man, this is the life".

Later we had climbed up into the recliner and a little girl came on tv. Someone off camera asked her what love was. Her reply was something to the effect of it's when you like someone more than anyone else. The narrator asks like whom, and she replies with the usual "My mom, My dad, My sister......" Then Trey looks at me and tells me she's wrong. I asked him why does he think she is wrong to which he replied "because that's not what love is". So while sountracks of 1980's pop rock ballads burn through the syanpses in my brain He replies...

"Love is when you really want to kiss somebody"

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