Both are fantastic cultural/literary references and have amazingly applied to our lives this week.

So the other day you (Ellen) decided to go through all of the diaper bags in daycare and take out as many snacks as you could find. You then proceeded to get all of the other children in daycare to sit in a circle while you sat in the middle and passed out snacks to everyone like a modern day toddler Robin Hood – stealing from the parents to give to the kids. Great.

This week has also begun the realization that there is a Benjamin Button-like effect in my life, but instead of me getting younger everyday, I believe that I get less and less responsible every day. Take, for instance, the fact that I am 30 years old and until Monday, could not access my bank accounts online nor did I know how my money was in each of my paychecks. I used to manage all of my money and fairly well. Then your father came into my life and I just trusted him to take care of everything. We routinely make fun of the fact that he could be syphoning off funds to the Bahamas, and I would never know.

Finances is not the only place that I have regressed in responsibility. I used to make all of the family meals. Then we moved to Grand Rapids, and your father began to take over all of the cooking. I love to cook, but seriously, who is going to argue with less work that results in fantastic food?

While analyzing this I can’t figure out if this is:

1. bad – should I be more responsible or is it a blessing to take and not question?
2. because of marriage – are you able to share more responsibilities and therefore not have to be more responsible as a whole?
3. because of your dad – he probably enables me. I also appreciate that.
4. because I was so responsible as a student that I’ve had enough of it and decided to revolt. This might be one of the more likely possibilities. I was too adult-like as a kid. Now I’m more kid-like as an adult. I kinda like it. But as I’m writing this I realize that by the time you can read this it may not seem like I’m kid-like at all and you probably won’t appreciate that thought. Welp. Whatcha gonna do?

The end.