DO YOU WANNA KNOW WHY I THINK HONEY IS SUPERMAN

 

This is Honey. I took this picture of him by the way. (check out the year on the plate)  God, I was madly in love with him. I mean **totally-skip school-think-up-any-excuse-just-to-be-with-him** in love.

 

I could tell you I think he’s Superman because of his looks…. Man, he had an attitude back then that used to give me a thrill.

I could tell you he’s The ‘S’ man because he’s spent a good deal of time taking care of things for us. Our first pool wasn’t going to beat him. Almost, but not quite.

 

I could tell you it’s because he dressed up for Halloween every year with the kids and took them out. That’s my son in the blue and his cousin in the pink. They went out as Pebbles and BamBam.

 

But then I was no slouch. I may have stayed at home to hand out candy but I always dressed up too. That’s me and my handsome devil boy when he was 8.

 

I could tell you it’s because he built my son and daughter a twelve foot squid because they asked him to one night when we were down at the beach.

 

Or because he let the kids play in the leftover job material when he took them to work with him (even though I expressly told him not to do that) They had a blast!

 

Maybe it’s because he gave our son a plastic hammer on his first birthday to smash the cake with. I was freaking cleaning frosting off those vertical blinds for days! But our son had the time of his life.

Could be because every Christmas he’s the guy who’s putting together all the toys for the kids. With one of them (that’s my daughter) hanging on him. She’s wearing his shirt oh, and that’s our first little bull Terrier Maggie there with him as well. The little baldie crouching on the floor is my niece.

 

Or because he recently took our daughter on a canoe trip down the Hillsborough river because she wanted to conquer her fear of spiders. (If any of you have read Stare Me Down – that part where Jaxx is talking about the canoe filled with spiders? True story. Only it was me on the oar with my mother in law on board) I thought it would be easy because the first time I went Honey was driving and all I did was apply sun screen. Trust me on this. NEVER take your mother in law in a canoe surrounded by snakes and spiders overhead and gators all around you. I can honestly say that is was the first time in my life I didn’t know what to do. I was torn between diving overboard or pushing her over the board. Wow what a day.
So, I could say I think Honey’s Superman for all those reasons, but the real reason I do is simple. Recently he suffered a freak accident at work where a piece of plate glass mirror fell off a wall. The mirror was the size of the wall and had been installed a week or so before the accident happened. They’re not really sure if the adhesive was defective or if it was an installation problem, but never-the-less, he went to the site to do a walk-through before the homeowner and designer arrived, and when he noticed the mirror bulging in a spot he put his hand up to test it for safety and the top corner cracked off and fell. There are so many ways this could have ended, so the damage to his left hand I’ll take as opposed to the alternatives. Anyway, if you read my prior post on this, you know that he tied a tourniquet and managed to get a compression wrap around his hand to staunch the blood. But what I didn’t know until nearly a day and half later, was that after he had sustained his injury and before I got there, he busted the rest of the mirror off the wall. I freaked when I heard this until he explained that there was no way to get in touch with the homeowner to warn him about the mirror’s instability and you see, the homeowner has an little girl who has a crush on Honey and frequently comes to the job site with her dad. He knew he couldn’t leave that mirror up there just in case another piece fell. So there he was. Severely injured making sure that no one else got hurt. Especially the little girl who left a big smiley face for him on one of the walls the first day he started their remodel job – thanking him for making them a nice home.
So super man? I think so.

Riley
Who will be glad when Monday’s over. Honey has surgery to correct the tendons in his hand. *crosses fingers* He won’t need any grafts.