Wad of Cash

When we were kids my little brothers loved to be "in character." They would watch 10 minutes of a football game on TV and then they would go outside and be the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos. After 10 minutes of the Six Million Dollar Man, they were Steve Austin. After 10 minutes of C.H.i.P.S. , they were Ponch and Jon. When we were really young, Tal's favorite character to be was Heath Barkley off of The Big Valley. I was Audra! I was Jeannie and he was Jeannie's evil sister.

We would also pretend to be "real people." When we played house, Tal was always one of our dad's co-workers. So I guess it comes as no surprise that Abe is the way he is. He doesn't play with cars & trucks or tractors & combines. No. He is always pretending to be "somebody."

He may be Superman or Batman. He may be Spiderman or a Ninja. Sometimes he is a Power Ranger.

For the first time ever - he is pretending to be a real person. Somebody we actually know.

This weekend he has chosen to be Uncle with a wad of cash in his pocket.

It seems like some people carry a ridiculous amount of cash on them and then others (this would be myself) never have any cash. I can barely scrimp fifty cents for a cup of coffee without having to use my debit card.

An Uncle (who shall remain unnamed) happens to carry lots of cash. On occasion, he will hand out cash to my kids. Abe was the recipient of his generosity this weekend. He pulled out his wad and gave Toothless $5.00 for each of his missing front two teeth. Abe was thrilled with the ten bucks but more impressed with all that cash!

He has put that money along with $20 he has been "hiding" and the money Grandma Judy gave him (for the same teeth) for a grand total of.... $35.00. He has all of his money folded up and wrapped tightly with a rubberband. He loves to carry this in his pocket and pull out his wad of cash to show it to us. He winks and point his finger (with his itty bitty thumb up in the air - kinda like he's shooting a gun) and says "Look at my wad of cash!"

He has even tempted Annie with it.
He said, "Look at my cash - to you it's money for gas!"

Instead of us calling him Spidey or Bruce Wayne we just call him Uncle Rick. (oops!)