Hoss's Broken Heart

For the last couple years Hoss has said that when he grew up he wanted to marry Aunt Red. You have to understand that Hoss and I have a special bond in that we have the same birthday. Well, I thought that was just about the sweetest thing knowing he'd grow out of it. He's mentioned it numerous times since then and I always say he'll find someone his age to marry when he got older. He's never wavered. I guess he mentioned it again yesterday to his mother, sis#3, and she decided it was time for him to understand it wouldn't happen. She said she was afraid he would say something at school and the kids would laugh at him and he would probably get fired up about that. So, she proceeded to tell him that he wouldn't be able to marry Aunt Red because we were related. That needed more explaining. When it all sunk in he cried for 15 minutes. That just broke my heart! Then he wanted to know why she didn't tell him this a long time ago when he brought it up the first time. He's all about being practical. She said she thought he would understand it now better since he was older. I guess he finally got over it and wanted to know who in the world he was gonna marry. She said he would probably meet her some day in the future when he got older and that very rarely did someone really know who they would marry when they were 6. I guess he was fine with that.

Then later in the day sis#3 was doing a little cleaning. I guess she ran across a box of stuff that had a baby mouse in it and it was alive! Yikes!! Of course Hoss wanted to keep it. When he found out that wasn't an option he cried again. Apparantly, this was a worse blow than finding out he could marry his favorite Aunt! His options were to kill it or send it outside. Neither were satisfactory til he found out the mouse had been chewing on a pair of Jessie Jane's pants. Then it was time for the rodent to hit the road. I'm so glad he's get's over heartache so quickly.

So, I can say that there once was a male who was so broken hearted he couldn't marry me that he cried and cried. I'll just leave out the part that he was my 6 year old nephew!!