The Christmas program, and all through Squeakers house, all the creature were eating, except the Daddy person who was off writing exams.
At dinner Squeaker asked her Uncle Mack if he would be coming to her Christmas program. He offered his regrets because of work. Squeaker responded by saying "at least Daddy will definately (loud sigh) maybe be there."
The Daddy person stayed up extra late and got the exams finished (complete with a few typos) and has this video to show for it.
What doesn't show on the video is the emotion behind the camera.
Semesters mark my inexorable path away from youth. Summers become fall, fall passes to spring and I am a year older than I was. Squeaker's time passes differently, in leaps and fits, progress perceptible in a way it is not for me, but unfit for the years by which we measure our own time. Occasionally life makes a point of marking for me both the glory of her growth but also the sadness of her mother's absence.
This program was one of those days for me.
