Who's amazing? Who's amazing? Yep, that would be me!!

We are a Star Wars family. Hubby and I grew up on the original trilogy... I still remember seeing the first movie in the theatre. We have all the movies on DVD and the kids love the animated series The Clone Wars... they watch the DVR'd episodes over and over and over.

And over and over and over... you get the idea.

Out of all the kids I think Child #2 is truly the biggest Star Wars fan. He got a bunch of Star Wars Legos for Christmas last year and his birthday this year... I did lots of sniping auctions on eBay. His favorite book is the Star Wars Lego Visual Dictionary... I think he's got every page memorized. Anytime he is sitting reading, that is the book he's got with him.

Well, the Star Wars in Concert is coming to Austin next week. I really wanted to take him but tickets are $65 each... eek! So needless to say that isn't in the budget.

KLRU our local PBS station had a give away for two tickets to the show... and I just won a pair. Unbelievable! Talk about total luck.

So I mentioned it to Child #2 and that we only had two tickets. One would be for him and one would be for either Mommy or Daddy. He didn't have to make a decision right now about who would take him... he could think about it for a while. Without a moment's hesitation...

"Daddy!"

Okay so I'm chopped liver??

Seriously, who is it that finds Star Wars books for him? Who reads those books to him? Who searched and sniped for the specific Lego sets that he would want off of eBay? Who takes the time to carefully swipe under the furniture and pick up any rogue Legos laying around before vacuuming any room in the house? Who listens to him wax on and on about various characters? Okay so we both do that one... Who took the time to record as many of the Clone War episodes as possible? Who found out about this concert? Who tried to get tickets? Who won said tickets??

Yeah, that would be me... guess I'm not amazing enough to be that special parent. Sigh... its hard sometimes to not be jealous when they pick the other parent...