Here's to you Little Zebra
Posted by Bryan Rothamel on June 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The biggest announcement in the history of the Real Estate Zebra came a week ago. Incase you were not on Twitter, my brother and sister(-in-law) are having their first child due to arrive mid January.
Daniel and Kari asked for people to comment on the blog entry Daniel used to break the news. With that came 38 comments! And no, I didn’t leave a comment. Why? Because I’m too good for comments! I raise the bar, not answer to it!
That is where this post comes in. This one is for you Lil Zebra (and Daniel and Kari too). This is my open letter to my future niece/nephew.
Dear Daniel and Kari’s child,
I’ll tell you what. Your parents’ little announcement of your pending birth really ruined millions of jokes I had about their lack of children. But there couldn’t be a better way to ruin jokes than to have the jokes end by bringing in another beautiful person into the world.
Your parents’ announcement pleased many in our family because we have lots of love to share and have waited some time to share it with you. You have people that will cook, entertain, teach you, you teach us, help you through life problems, share life’s joys with you and many, many more things. Our family might be a little unconventional at times, but hey, name one that isn’t? We sure have fun at doing it and will always have the love.
And don’t you worry, love will come in bundles from me. I have a few promises I have thought of for you. Why, you might only be in your first trimester, I still can make some promises to you.
I promise you that no matter how far we are away from each other by domiciles, we will be near each other in thought. Visiting you will be fun, I might even make time to see your parents too!
I promise you, an addendum to the first promise, I will try to make as many of your life changing experiences as possible. I don’t know how far we will live away from each other, but I will try my hardest to make it like we are 10 steps away even if we are 10 hundred miles apart.
I promise to play you in whatever technology games whenever we can. Let’s face it, your parents, especially your father, will always want the newest games. If they don’t, I’ll be on your side to persuade them, or whatever else you want to persuade them on (except not anything that brings a permanent change to your body and/or relationship with your parents).
I promise to also play with you outside. Throw a baseball/softball, take a walk, ride bikes, whatever. We can’t always be inside; every now and then we have to go outside.
I promise to be whatever you need and the greatest uncle you could imagine. I guess that’s kind of an open-ended, all-inclusive promise. Good thing I left it for last. Maybe you don’t want me in play video games or walk outside or whatever. I just want to make sure you can think of me, a smile comes to your face because I know when I think of your family, a smile will always come to my face.
I can’t wait to meet you and see you in January!
Love,
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