Jeff and I are the kewlest uncles

[greatbear]

Well, it's been busy busy busy here as usual (hence no posts in a while or about NYC yet), but this weekend brought about a little change in the busy-ness to lighten things up. For quite a while, Jeff's 10-year old nephew Cole has been wanting to come down to Maryland from his home in the uber-boonies of Herndon, PA to spend some fun time with us. This had finally become that weekend. With the blessings of his mom and dad, we planned a weekend of fun stuff for Cole that include movies, an Oriole's game, ESPN zone, Harborplace and a trip to DC to see the various monuments. Cole is a very smart kid, and the DC trip was his decision. Hungry for history and science in school, he chose seeing the monuments over anything else. We will also try to give him a taste of the Smithsonian while we are there, just for icing on the cake.

In addition to his love of science (especially astronomy) and history, he loves sports, with football being his number one game, which he plays in school on their team and brings along lots of wins. Well, movie night from yesterday bore his love of football, since he picked out of all movies, The Longest Yard. Yeah. The new, MTV Movies remake. With the PG-13 rating. But, I warned Jeff, and his mom gave it an okay, so off we went. Cole had a blast, as did we. We could say that Cole will go back to his bucolic existence in the sticks of Pennslovakia farm country with a fresh outlook on prison life, colorful language and such, but the language ain't nothing he aint heard before, and certain, er, 'aspects' of jailhouse playtime don't quite register yet. We all came out smiling and laughing and having a good time, so that's what counts. And besides, Revenge of the Sith has a PG-13 rating too, so there. Pbbbbth.

Today is the baseball game, his first major league event. He's pumped. After that, we'll spend some time hanging around Harborplace in Baltimore, and we'll give him our leftover gameplay cards from ESPN Zone to hit the arcades. He'll need some wind-down time after that then tomorrow's trip to Warshnin Dee Cee and a final cookout here at the house before Jeff takes him back home, which is a 3 hour drive. Cole has school on Tuesday, of course. He'll have some really neat things to tell his friends.

I love being a 'gay uncle'.

Comments

Re: It must be nice to be a "Gay Uncle."

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

The 'gayness' around the kids for all intents and purposes barely exists around the kids (all told, there are 5, ranging in age from about 3 to 16. Jeff and I never bring it up, instead we allow the kids to primarily see us together and interact with us. These kids are smart enough to figure things out once they reach an age where it will begin to make sense. In other words, we live our normal, rather ordinary lives around the kids, letting them take in all the situations and interactions. The information will all be there once their minds are able to 'decrypt' it all as they get older. With the info already in place untainted by hearsay and whatnot, they can figure out that indeed gay people arent really much different than straight ones. Just a small, private aspect is different than what they might have known, and it does not make us bad folk.

Keep in mind that the parents are all very well aware.

Re: It must be nice to be a "Gay Uncle."

[gregbearphl.livejournal.com]

This is exactly how we behave around the kids. Occasionally, they hear me calling Jason, "Honey," and we are affectionate around each other, but it is no different than any other "straight" couple. The kids have figured out that we were gay years ago (they are 11 and 13), but we never really talk about it. The kids are very proud of our relationship.