4 pinks and a blue

Have you ever heard someone say that they like their coffee with a 'pink and a blue'? For those that are not up on coffee lingo, pink refers to Sweet' n Low, blue refers to Equal. It dawned on me for some reason that our family is a mix of four pinks and a blue. It sounded like a good blog label for a series of posts.

I can honestly say that I never thought that I would be the dad to three children, mush less three girls (pinks). Don't get me wrong, they are a blessing unlike any other and each of those 'blessings' is very individual and unique. I have learned (am learning) to appreciate each of them for their own personalities and approaches to life. While each of my girls (Laura included) affect me in different ways, I have begun to see how my life is going to be different as the result of being the one lone blue in the middle of four pinks. Example: this evening after small group some of the men went upstairs to check out the bowling game on the Nintendo Wii. Never mind how cool the the game was and that the inertial controller could actually put spin on the ball - you just hold the control and treat it like a bowling ball. How cool is that! (If we were honest, we could have stayed for a couple of hours playing.) But the world of Nintendo or Xbox is something that I really doubt I'll ever get into - I mean, they don't have Dancing Princess or High School Musical games do they? But sometimes there is that part of me that watches other dads and sons playing their Wii or Xbox and kind of misses that father/son stuff - but I have been given pinks. I know that there is a whole world of daddy/daughter stuff out there and it is all good, just different from what dads grew up doing. So, I'll continue to let my first two pinks give me 'foot massages', continue to braid their hair on request, and continue to live inside a musical - it is sweet.