My Proudest Moment

This past weekend, was a remarkable one. it started off with little fanfair. We had headed out of town, for some R&R as well as to attend my wife’s family reunion. The reunion unfortunately, was located in putnam county OH, or as I call it sexoffendersburg. I kid, I kid, Putnam county is great, especially for people watching, which is one of my favorite ways to pass the time. It’s also a great place, since you can pretty much take beer anywhere. We were at a community park, which in most parts of the U.S. of A. is a beer free zone, especially when it is right next to a big church. However, tyhis was Putnam county, and it was a catholic church, so beer was kind of expected.
We arrived a little late, as we had to wait for my son to take his mid-day nap. As we were walking up, we noticed it was pretty busy on this day. Every little shelter house was packed, and most of them had people with beer in their hands, this day was starting to shape up a bit. We found the one with my wife’s family party, and sat down to get caught up. We chatted, mostly with the my wife’s immediate family. I pretty much chased the boy around, and did some people watching. After a while, we headed back into the picnic area to see what was going on. My son, decided he was going to play with my father-in-laws cooler. He quickly discovered that the lid opened, and there was stuff in there. After he dug around for a few moments, he closed the lid, and started walking my way. he had something in his hands, but I could not make it out. As he walked closer to me, I made out the shape. He walked up to me, and handed me an ice cold Bud Light. All my dreams came true right there at this moment. Without me asking, my son, beer’d me, all by his little self. I truly am the luckiest man alive, and I can say without hesitation, that my kid, is the best kid in the world. it wasn’t my beer, but I was damned sure not gonna let this magical moment go to waste. That may have been the best tasting beer I’ve ever had. Pretty much every moment since then, I’ve spent weeping tears of joy. There’s been a constant stream of tears and snot running down my face, as this is, the greatest thing ever. I figured it would take a few years of training to get my boy to beer me, but he’s already doing it, all on his own. He’s an overachiever, I’ll tell ya what. Really, no matter what he does from this point forward, I will be the proudest father in the world.