How To Make A Daddy's Day...

First, you ask him to please - pretty please - put Sweetie to bed for you for the 4th night in a row. You know you promised you'd do it yourself tonight, but you just don't have it in you.

Watch, and listen, as he slowly, painfully makes his way up the stairs to her room. Proceed to feel a bit sorry for him, but know that you would be slowly, painfully climbing those steps yourself if you were on bedtime duty - as you should be.

Then, moments later, see Hubby beam like a giddy school kid as he announces what part of Sweetie's bedtime storybook he got to read to her tonight:

Jabberwocky

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Saw There

(He was equally excited the night he got to read The Lobster-quadrille in the last book).

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Oh how I love a man who appreciates good literature. A man who deftly slays the cruel beasties of our little world by bringing humor into our lives every day.

Happy (almost) Eleven, Hubby. It's been quite an amazing adventure.

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(I'm still waiting to hear from 2 of my winners from my DVD giveaway. Danielo and Lee Laughlin - please contact me before the end of this Friday to claim your prize. Otherwise, I'll draw 2 new names as my winners. Thanks! Hoping to hear from you soon).