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Congratulations, It's a Teenager
Waking Up One Day to Single Fatherhood By Rick March
, and we can repeat every line from every episode. We played gin rummy and Texas Hold 'Em, and I taught him to bluff and check/raise you know, all the important stuff.
We had our happy hour of TV every night, and then he did homework while I found yet another way to make the driest chicken in the state. I even tried to introduce the dreaded vegetable into dinner. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not so much. My plan, if indeed there could ever be one, was to create a feeling of belonging for Paul, a lifestyle pattern filled with laughter about the inane and yet an undertone of "grown up" stuff too.
What kind of stuff? (I love that word.) If I cooked, he'd put the stuff in the dishwasher. No, we don't rinse things first; after all, we're men. He'd clean u after the dog and I'd teach him to drive. When he said, "I can't," I'd respond with a line from A Few Good Men
