it’s not about you

So our friend Thomas has been staying with us for a bit until he finds his own place in The City. Killian and Mary Judah have fallen absolutely in love with him and he has become their own personal jungle gym. Killian can’t say “Thomas” so instead he says “Bittas,” which is probably the closest I can get to spelling what it sounds like coming out of my son’s mouth.

We met Thomas through Dan Hughes back when we were living in the loft in Exposition Park. Back then, he and his wife were going to move to Dallas, but that ended up falling through, and now he’s got a job with some start-up here in SF. Thomas gets to move into his place today and so last night was his last night to stay with us. He got promoted from guest to family member, and from the couch to an air mattress, but Mary Judah demoted him from the being the king to being Gus-Gus (the rotund mouse from Cinderella). She hasn’t yet, however, assigned him his own color. I’ll have to look into that.

He leaves to go back to Minnesota for a week to see his wife, Kim, and then after that he’ll be in his own space with a couple of guys for a while until Kim moves out at the end of the year. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be living halfway across the country from my husband. Not the most fun situation, but he’s been a great sport while crashing with us.

I have to say, though, that it’s been really nice having another adult around. I’m such an extrovert and like being around people, so having another body around the place is fun. Joshua finally has someone to talk to about tech-geek stuff - Thomas is on a tech-geek level ahead of Joshua comparable to the tech-geek level ahead of me that Joshua is (and that’s BIG, by the way). They can talk about stuff and I have no idea what they’re saying, and they’re even speaking in ENGLISH.

And let’s face it - with three adults, we outnumber the children. It’s nice to come out on top that way.

That’s what she said.

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