A not-entirely unusual moment

In this family we're weird, but in my opinion it's wonderful. Take what occurred earlier (it went something like this):

Momma started going through Bubs' wallet. This was bothering him quite a bit. The wallet, like the i-phone and the macbook are items which he is particularly careful of. As his frustration and fear rose, momma continued to take items out of the wallet. Personally, i think she was kind of amusing herself with his distress. Still, it was beginning to become one of those interactions which can quickly take the mood of the moment south.

So i took pity on him and grabbed the cards from her.

"Momma, you have to put those down."

"Why?"

"Because bubs' is getting all Asberger's about it."

i once rifled through my DSM diagnosing bubs. Ever since i read him the characteristics of Aspergers, he has occasionally decided that he has it. This is not written with any disrespect toward people who do have it. I was very close with one of my youth group kids with this condition. The comment, however, was enough to break bubs out of his bad mood, and he kind of smiled.

"I thought you said I didn't have it." (After originally reading him the criteria, I have told him that I don't really think he has it. That's true as well.

"Momma's mad at you," at this point she was pointing the remote at him and pushing buttons, clearly enjoying herself immensely.

"Obviously, she's trying to turn me off."

She's been doing this lately, carrying around the remote control and using it as a life control. It's quite frankly adorable.

Apparently today while she and bubs were taking a car ride (giving me time to work on a grant from home) he was telling her that the remote would not work on anything in the car. It just so happened though that she pushed the button when Pandora came on. She proceeded then to continue using the remote to control things. It made her very happy, i think.

The best in my opinion is still when she uses it to control us.

Thank God, yet once again for, for my family, as crazy as we are.