Welcome to the Husband and Wife Law Team Blog! This is our first blog post. As many of you know who read our monthly newsletters, we are the “Husband and Wife Law Team.” This blog will be the same format as our newsletters, A Little About the Law… A Lot About Everything Else. Of course, a good amount of the “everything else” is about our 7 kids… and for those that do not know us, the answers to your questions are, first, yes, they are all mine and second, yes, they are all ours! This blog will give us an opportunity to write more frequently than our newsletter each month. If you want to be on our newsletter list, please e-mail lucia@breyerlaw.com.
Usually, we talk about each child in our newsletter and Mark comments about how he thinks everything I (Alexis) say is wrong. Although, I thought about having this as my exclusive forum, Mark wants to still have his chance at letting everyone know how he thinks he’s always right, which we all know he isn’t. In any case, we will be keeping the same format in our blog, I write (i.e. I do all the work) and he writes his comments (i.e. he criticizes what I‘ve written)!
So it is only fitting that our first blog article is going to be about Zev. Zev is our oldest child. He is 12 years old now. He is exactly like his father (please help me!) Not that his father isn’t the greatest, but it’s like living with two of them and it’s hard enough to live with one of Mark. Although I have to say Mark is finally starting to take out the garbage and bring down the laundry to the laundry room. I mean, is it asking for that much to bring down the laundry to the laundry room? (Editor’s Note from Mark: What is it in the brain of a smart, beautiful, awesome wife that makes her go crazy over the garbage. It’s the garbage I forgot to take out, I didn’t forget to bring a kid on the family vacation. Get a grip.)
So back to Zev, he’s in 6th grade this year. He tried out for a play and he has been faithfully going to rehearsals so we are very proud of him. Zev’s biggest thing right now is video games. I asked him the other day in front of my father if he’d like to go home and play video games or if he’d like to spend more time with his grandfather and grandmother who were visiting from Boston. As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I knew I shouldn’t have asked Zev the question. (Editor’s Note from Mark: I mean after all, in the law you always learn, never ask that one extra question when you can only lose ground. Once you have the people where you want them, just leave it at that. Never sell what has already been sold.) While I was holding my breath and praying he would say “spend time with Peepa and Meema,” Zev was silent for a few seconds and finally blurted out, “Meema and Peepa.” Thank goodness! I breathed a sign of relief. My father was probably wondering why I was so red from holding my breath!
Zev is also very smart, like his Dad. I tell Zev he’s really lucky- he got my looks and his Dad’s brain. Zev doesn’t seem to like that – maybe he thinks I’m telling him he looks like a girl. Although, I have a picture of myself when I was 12 years old and Zev looks exactly like me…. especially since his hair is longer than mine at age 12. I am still not quite sure about the long hair styles of the boys these days. There’s not much you can do though as a parent… I’ve learned just pick my battles… and pick them slowly…. with a lot of thought! Similar to how you deal with your husband!
The other day when I came home from work, Zev had put on gym clothes getting ready to go to basketball practice. I said to Zev that his clothes don’t match and he told me, “Why not Mom. Orange and Black match.” To which I responded to him, “Zev that’s not black it’s green!” To which he signed, “Awwww, Mom.” I’m willing to bet Mark had a similar conversation when he was younger… but it probably was with his sister Sheri, not his Mom. I don’t know… I’m just guessing! (Editor’s Note from Mark: Never happened for me. My sister just picked my clothes out so I would not embarrass her by trying to dress well without her guidance.)
Sheri said:
This is Mark’s sister, Sheri, and if you saw the yellow and orange clam diggers Mark picked out for himself, you’d understand why I had to approve all further clothing choices.
Bobbi Waterman said:
I saw Sheri’s reply and think this husband and wife law team are probably #1 in husband and wife law teams.