He asks for Jazz

"Put on my favorite jazz station please", the car is the sound station on the run and he's twitching to do some toe tappin'. For him ambient jazz is like air, he almost needs it to breathe. His love of jazz has always amused me. His favorites are Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, John Coltrane and Dean Martin singing "That's Amore". A deep appreciation of jazz fusion makes it's way to our dinner table sometimes and is not always the most relaxing. Special tunes are selected for special events. Unloading the dishwasher is, "Take the A-Train" or "Waitin' for Katie". Folding laundry is "One O'clock Boogie". Putting away groceries is anything by Tito Puente.

He'll turn nine years old soon and when he does, he'll insist on two things; A new Lego set and "Christmas Island" by the Andrews Sisters. He'll do what he always does; he'll get the Ipod doc., a blanket to spread out all his pieces, then he'll put on Christmas Island and he'll play it about 100 times over two hours, while he's "in the zone" assembling the kits made for 12 and up.

My friend, who's my neighbor looks at him as he scrolls through our extensive Jazz list and chooses through them all exhibiting his proficiency with each song and category. I laugh and say "Isn't he funny", she looks at me open mouthed and says, "He's you!" I don't quite no what to feel. Good, he's amazing, but how can that be? I suddenly feel so unworthy. But I guess it's a compliment. He is incredible and he does drive me crazy. She is incredible and she does drive me crazy. They light up my every morning. And every night when we put the dishes away, we dance around the kitchen to Devo, the B-52's, Southern Culture on the Skids and Ella Fitzgerald. I guess the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree and sometimes that's not so bad.;)

This moments contents of my kitchen table

Four home made flash cards for; Fibrous roots, Chloroplasts, Xylem, Epidermis
One sticky note, heart-shaped from my daughters teacher to her with supportive message (private)
One pen, hopefully works
One bottle of honey
My purse that Ian threw up on a few weeks ago, wiped, dried and A-OK!
Place mat of the United States of America; Sloppy Joe's floating in the Atlantic Ocean, ketchup in the Nevada basin, dried rice kernel in the Bahamas, unidentified brown swoosh across Canada and into Alaska. All in all pretty dang good!
Hard plastic paint tray, brand new sponge roller replacement (no roller), paint brush, plastic garden hand spade.
One pad of lined paper
One February behavior sheet with notes written on back; bank balances and a large message written "Call for more checks".
Used table cloth
Laptop computer
"Jam Packed Action Teen Titans" graphic novel for kids from library

Another day in the life of Momto!