Wilson's House Guest

Chris was working out of town when Wilson and I came home this evening. I got the mail and Wilson, ever aware of what comes in the mail for some reason, said "What'd we get?" I flipped through the mail - "Water bill, junk mail, and Daddy got a letter." "Who's it from?" "Well, the return address says 'President, George W Bush'".

At this point Wilson looked like those people who have won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Award during half-time at the Super Bowl. He grabbed the letter out of my hands and started jumping up and down saying "President George! President George! President George!"

At this point I will point out to you that you, too, can get a letter where the return address is labeled "President George W Bush". All you need to do is send in a $25 donation to the RNC, and they will send you a request for more money every few weeks. So, really, it is junk mail from the RNC. Wilson can't read, he knows nothing of fundraising - all he knew was in his hands was an envelope to his father that came from the Leader of the Free World. So I played along.

"What do you think President George wants?" I asked. Wilson stopped jumping and screaming. He looked at the prize letter in his possession and then looked up at me "He's coming to our house - THIS WEEKEND!" After he said it quietly once he started getting louder and louder and started the jumping up and down again. Our neighbors, who were outside fixing their car in their driveway, were suddenly very interested in our mail. Not sure if they were "friendly" with the RNC, I ushered Wilson quickly inside so he could call and tell Chris that President George had mailed him a letter to announce he will be visiting us this weekend.

Chris told Wilson we wouldn't be home this weekend - we're going to his 10 year reunion, which should provide us with another somewhat humorus blog entry... So if you're in the neighborhood this weekend and you see a motorcade on our street...