Comments on: One Just Like You

By: IZ

IZ — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:06:08 +0000

If we were rating personalities like potato chips - at least as children - I would say Mark was like BBQ flavored chips. Lots of zing, always fun, if not a bit over the top. You on the other hand were more like salt & vinegar. Complex but addictive.

If the Universe has a wry sense of humor - I’m betting on them ending up with salt & vinegar… and Marie and Mark will find lots to love in that particular flavor… I know I have.

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Heh… I love the analogy. ~W

By: Keri

Keri — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:14:27 +0000

Oh my. Boy Wonder certainly does look like his momma. Whether or not he got his uncle’s personality traits his sweet face has the look of the sweet (albeit sullen) young girl in this photo.

Have no fear, the universe is most likely listening. It listened to me. My big brothers EACH got daughters Just. Like. Me.

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The older he gets the more he resembles me. Weirdly. When he was first born, he looked so much like IZ one of our good friends said, “Well, we know he’s not the milk man’s.” heh. And thank you for this comment. I got to the end and busted out laughing. That almost makes me wish I had more siblings. ha ha ha . ~W

By: Cap

Cap — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:51:44 +0000

This picture is sooo adorable!

I was able to thwart my parents and take away the threat of a kid “just like you!” because … well, because I knew what a kid “just like you!” would be like. And I’m not stupid.

Family dynamics are interesting. I look very much like MoC … and I do take after her in some ways. But more and more, I look in the behavioral mirror and see my father. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not

Congrats, Marie!

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Seriously, considering all the DNA at play, Adoption should have been on our agenda. ha ha ha. And uh, I have that stupid Kaiser Chiefs song Ruby stuck in my head. OY. And I think you’d do just fine raising a little cap. Just sayin. ~W

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:58:30 +0000

Ha, this is hilarious!! You two are absolutely precious!

I’m sure Mark has his own thoughts on the subject, but if we have a little girl I would love it if she was sullen and vinegar-ey… just like her aunt More importantly, I’m hoping that somehow Mark’s genetic makeup will provide us with a little girl with light-colored eyes and dark hair, once again… just like her aunt… I hope the Universe is listening!

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Don’t listen to Mark. And for the record… I’m on your side. I can already see that I’m going to enjoy having a sister. ~W

By: Karan

Karan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:21:26 +0000

I got what my mom wished upon me…and I remind my daughter every day that everyone thinks she is just like her mother. That bit of sharing is tasty.

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Yes, because we all want to be our mothers at 17. NICE. ~W

By: Kimberly C.

Kimberly C. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:01:29 +0000

I chortle with tears- that is so funny. I wish I knew someone like me.

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Oh, I’m glad you laughed. I’m a humorist at heart, but I think that gets missed in reading my work sometimes. IZ keeps telling me to PODCAST so people can HEAR how these pieces are supposed to sound. Like the world needs more of my voice! ~W

By: katie

katie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:41:21 +0000

I’m sorry… did you just write a story about me and my brother? I’m really trying to find the differences, and I can’t so much. Except perhaps the mom-made clothing. I mean, my mom made ours too, but it was of the 80s variety.

I cannot wait for the day my brother will have a girl like me. I hope it will help me understand me a little bit more

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Oh sure, remind me that I’m that much older than you. It’s because it’s my birthday month, that you’re torturing me, right? ~W

By: Miz S

Miz S — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:31:22 +0000

I love hearing about who takes after whom. It’s funny how it’s not just eye color and noses and smiles that get passed along.

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Heh, it is funny—because it’s so much more than looks. BW really does look like me. . . but he’s his father as far as his thinking goes, and that star of the show disposition is all his uncle and grandmother. ~W

By: Liza Lee Miller

Liza Lee Miller — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:57:44 +0000

My daughter is so much like my sister — who chose not to have children. Not exactly like her but so much like her. It’s amazing, and I regularly call her by my sister’s name, too. Cosmic chuckles are regularly heard. Oh, and just for the record, I was the easy one!

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Oh, I’m relieved to hear you do that too. OF COURSE you were the easy one. Heh. ~W

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:10:47 +0000

Both my girls are a bit like me, and a bit like their dad. I think I have more issues with the aspects of them that are like me though. It’s hard not to control, and so tempting to try to get them to avoid my mistakes. They have to make their own, right?

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That’s the theory, anyway. ~W