She's Got the Look !

While uploading some pictures to my scrap blog, I came across this picture that Marc snapped of me ( its rare that I am not the one behind the camera ). Anyway, do you remember when you were a child and all it took was for your mom to give you that look and you would straighten up in a hurry ? Can I ask why that does not work on husbands ? Marc should have been considered the class clown in school, but from all I can gather on him, he was way more serious then he is now. If only they could see him now .....well he's just plain worrisome at times ! He has always been the one to pick at you. He does it with our family, co-workers and especially with our church congregation. He's known as "trouble" at church and usually someone will yell here comes trouble. Often people ask me how I have been able to put up with him for the last 24 years. My reply is always the same...I ignore him. I can't even tell you what he did to me the day that he took this picture ( I'm sure that the look was well deserved ). When someone meets Marc for the first time they usually end up asking my children if its fun at our house all the time ? Their response is NO ! Despite all of this I will say this about Marc.....When your his friend, you could not have asked for a more loyal, loving person. He's the most charitable person I know. He would give you the clothes off of his back if need be ( and he is very well known for giving gifts out for any occasion...even if its just a Youth Advisory staff meeting at church ) . He loves babies and young people. His face light ups when he sees a baby ( we know the look even before we know what or whom he is looking at ). At times he is a pest, but the one legacy I feel he has passed on to my children is that same loving feeling towards their own ( blood or not ). I don't think they realize how loyal they are, and how they have taken on some of the characteristics of Dad. TJ is that way with his sisters and cousins ... very rarely will he deny them if they ask him for something ( if he says no it usually means he just does not have it to give ). He is the same with me. Nicki would carry every friend at her school where they wanted to go if she had the gas money to do it ( she is the same with me ). Quisha would take in every child in the world, if she thought she could. Marc is the same way. Last week we found out that our friends would not be able to keep their foster kids. I swear if my husband had been able to get on a plane to Hawaii that day to help out, he would have. He cried over the lost of those two girls and we had only been with them two weeks. He's really a softy. So the next time you see me give the "look", its not so much because I am trying to stop "trouble" ( well maybe it is ). Underneath the look is pride in a husband who may pluck my nerves on a daily basis , but I wouldn't trade him for nothing !