At the Easter vigil, I realized something. While I believe what we wear to church matters and reflects the dignity and solemnity of the liturgy, my dress clothes aren’t the most important things I wear to worship. It’s not the nice shirt, pressed pants, or tie that completes my ensemble.
It’s baby drool. Nothing else quite as well expresses my identity as a husband and father trying to work out my salvation with fear and trembling and help my family serve the Lord.
Real men wear baby drool in church.
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Baby drool, or clerical collars
.(And no, I'm not knocking the single guys with no kids, or the guys in a marriage who deal with infertility. I've been there.)When my kids were small enough to drool on me, I was one of those guys with the burp cloth flipped over my shoulder, to catch it. But Subvet really sums it up.Peace,–Peter
Without contradicting you too much I hope, I would contend that there is nothing unmanly or unfatherly in carrying a clean handkerchief with which to wipe away baby drool, from both self and baby.
On baby #5, it doesn’t seem quite such a badge of honor.
LOL. well, I suppose you might have a point. I’m still on my first.
For the record, I didn’t forgo putting a bib on my shoulder until spitting up became a more predictable phenomenon. I don’t mind a bit of clear drool on my shoulder.
Paul is right, after the first tyke the drool gets real old, real fast.
But it still beats not having any rugrats at all!
After nine children, I have to say that the cloth over the shoulder is simply a challenge to a youngster to find an open spot. And they do…
I have learned not to wear the really nice suit to Church, as I usually look like I lost a wrestling match by the end from #4 and baby drool from #5.