Mongoose Mayhem

When children are born you can see the visible links to your DNA. The hair color, "your" nose, and so on. But as they grow, you get to have a peek into the personality traits that point in your direction.

This photo of Mike makes me smile because, although he is nearly the spitting image of Jim, he is mine in other ways.

He is reading the latest Goosebumps, a books series with a scary twist. He adores these and will read through a few of them, in a few days. Luckily, it is a large series and we find these at the used book store. Right now, he hardly looks at other genres.

So, it was with macabre pleasure that I found Mike intensely focused, sucked into the thrill of horror. I grabbed my latest vampire novel and snuggled up next to him...