OUR SON IS WAY COOLER THAN I

But then again, most that know us both would say in that snarly way,"Well, yeah."

Our oldest grandson turns 10 on Friday. On Tuesday his G-Ma called the house to find out if he got his drums or not. He didn't.

But the message went through on the machine where she had asked if he gotten his drums.

Our son, who was at his oldest daughter's softball game out of town, heard the message later that evening and called. He was very calm and waited for me to explain.

It seems that his son who has had guitar lessons decided that he was going to play the drums at school this year. Evidently, he had only shared that with us. There was a school Music Fair where instruments were brought to school for sale. There were no drums.

How he thought he was going to buy them, is an unknown factor that was omitted from our conversation with our grand.

Having heard the message, our son thought we had bought and shipped a drum set to his house for our grandson's birthday. And his mother was calling to see if the boy got his present from us.

Now had I been our son and I thought my father had bought a set of drums for our son without sharing that information with me, I would have been pretty upset.

Not our son. His call was one of confirmation. Not that he wanted his son to play the drums; he just wanted to know about it.

I think, though the only drums he prefers are drumsticks. On the grill.