Pipe Down

Pipe Down Life is funny.My twenties daughter, Melanie, has a new summer job as a nanny for three small children. Has l? An aspiring operatic soprano, who was swept away by a rich neighborhood of Manhattan, near the day after the final ended at the Eastman School of Music. His mother and I miss terribly. Thank God for our family talk plan! Last night, he called home and we discussed my next book signing at Borders, asked, you need two pipes and go to sleep! I do not want t hear a peep from you? I doubled over laughing. Tears streaming my cheeks. The tone and the accent was identical to my words, night after night of Melanie and her twin sister, Allison, when they were young. When she retued to the phone, she joined my laughter. You know, dad, is? Weird. I'm tuing into you and the mother. I close, I am conceed about all the time on them! I heard my voice to speak every time for them! And when I leaed all the words of these songs Raffi? I thought that the comments on his past, as I pushed Wal-Mart tonight. A mother and her two teenage daughters, walk directly in front of my van. Crossed the street without taking a second to control the traffic. I couldn t relate. Not a po '. I still put my hand in front of people? S crates when approaching an intersection. My friends a little 'annoyed with me, but old habits are hard to break was about thirty years the first time I realized what my father as I? D become. I got up from a chair and grunted. As his father. I walked through the noise, heavy footfalls. As his father. And I responded to a glass of juice of relapse with the same? Argh? How Dad.This parenting thing, and that the cycles propelled us in life, are surprising. Over the last twenty-two years I? I have defined myself as a father. E 'was the brand that covers everything that describes me. More technical, more than her husband, more passionate gardener, grass more than the author? good. Life was chauffeuring Jennifer band practice, Allison for her dance classes and tests to be performed Melanie. It 'was at home to help make the mountains of laundry, and try to cook for an army that we are on Sunday? D have nutritious, though monotonous, meals during the week. This meant leaving work early to Allison? S ski meeting, designing T-shirts to promote school musical, and help Jenn find a car worthy of money.Now that my daughters are not the women and my grandparents arrived son, me? I began to define me as a grandfather. And I like it. A lot.Like I said, life is funny.Aaron Paul Lazar resides in Upstate New York with his wife, three daughters, two grandchildren, son, mother-in-law, two dogs and three cats. After writing in the early hours of the moing, he worked as an engineer at Electro NexPress Solutions Inc., part of Kodak's Graphic Communications Group, Rochester, New York. Other passions of vegetables, fruits, flowers and gardening, preparing large family feasts; photographing his family, the gardens and the beautiful Genesee Valley; country skiing through the hills, playing a distinctly amateur level piano, and spending? Time? French impressionists, each time increasing its possible.Although adored delightful three daughters, Mr. Lazar finds grandfathering his? two little friends? to be one of the best experiences of his life. Double Forte ', the first of the series, was published in January 2005. Upstaged, number two is in production. With eight books to his credit, Mr. Lazar is currently working on the ninth, which has Legarda Gus and his family.