You Silly Goose

Parents can have some pretty high expectations for their kids. Some parents are convinced that their kid is going to be the next Michael Jordan, the next Mozart, or the next Albert Einstein even before they’re out of diapers…sometimes before they’re even born. But to be fair, we have some pretty high expectations for our future kid also. Like his mother and father before him, we expect our child to be a huge dork.   

     What brings this up is that it’s almost time to have our annual NerfWar at our house. For those of you who are more mature than us (pretty much all of you), NerfWar is like a big, grown-up game of capture the flag. Everyone has a Nerf gun and, if you get shot, you’re out. If you’re wondering, yes, we have the maturity of 7 year olds, but it’s not just us, our friends are dorks too. Just picture a big, open yard full of adults (and we let some kids play too) running around with Nerf guns. Sounds pretty silly, right? It gets worse. This year we’re dressing up like superheroes. Like I said, we’re dorks.

    It’s weird, we know, but we have a lot of fun with it. More than anything else, it’s an excuse to have our friends and family over. We get to run around the yard with the people playing the game, and get to spend the rest of the night enjoying a cookout with everyone else.  But that’s why I’m pretty convinced that our child will turn out to be a dork…because he’ll be surrounded by them! No offense to any of our friends and family members reading this, but you guys are huge dorks too. Our child will grow up with parents that not only think adults playing with Nerf guns is normal, he’ll be surrounded by them!

    I think our future child’s dorkiness is a great thing though. Although I’m sure he’ll eventually be embarrassed that mom and dad are shooting at their friends with Nerf darts, there’s going to be a time when he has a lot of fun with it. We’re looking forward to having him around. We can’t wait to have our own little NerfWar player running around the yard with us, trying to capture the other team’s flag. Hopefully by the time we have our next NerfWar, we’ll have our little Nerf Warrior here. I think he’ll love being a part of it. Even if it means having a family full of dorks.