Jim Stacy has a birthday today!

There has never been a child like Jim Stacy and I am meaning that as a compliment.   He was never a go-along, easy child who did not care what was coming off.   He was a person who had interests and if you were not interested, he did not care.  He knew what programs he intended to watch on television and who he intended to play with and what he intended to play.   He was the same with food and yuck was a favorite word about any vegetable that crept upon his plate or meatloaf with the audacity to have green peppers and onions stuck inside it.

He loved sodas, ice cream, cookies and that was how he wanted to balance his diet.   Sometimes, I just let him do it and thought to myself....well, at least that is milk content.  He loved the park and he loved to run and play there.   He hated to go to Charleston, or to church or to Vacation Bible School or to strange houses where he had no familiarity.  And he was not one to suffer in silence!

He was a hoot!   Funny, sarcastic, off the wall, daring, made me earn some new parental stripes, and sometimes made me want to go to the top of the roof and jump off!  But, what an experience this James Franklin Stacy has been and is!  I wouldn't take nothing for the experience!!!   Happy Birthday, Jimbo Jickapoo Jay!