Full House

Dear Maddie,

You have a new love in your life.  And that love comes in the form of Danny, Joey, and Uncle Jesse.  Yes, thanks to Nick at Nite you are now obsessed with the classic 90's show Full House.  I grew up watching this show (every Friday night on TGIF with Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and others).  The fact that you now love it warms my heart.  I think that about 30% of your love is because it is on before bed, so you can use it as an excuse to stay up late, but I'll take it!

Now that we've established Full House as a great show, we need to start working on the others - Saved by the Bell, Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, Friends, and Wings.  The last two may be over your head, but you'll appreciate them later!  We're going to raise you right in this house, so no more Disney channel for you, young lady!  If you're going to spend any time with your Uncle Dave and I, you must be able to sufficiently quote Friends with us.

Fun fact: I recorded the finale of this show on a VHS tape because I wasn't at home when it aired.  Ah, life before DVD, DVR, and OnDemand television.  I'll show you this stuff in an antique museum.

Ah, what will television be like when you're older?  Nowadays there is a bunch of recycled junk, idiot reality shows, a million singing competitions, and NCIS may be in its 38th season (Paw Paw's favorite show).  Some of the best shows are on HBO and Showtime, which I am too cheap to buy, so we stick with AMC shows that come with our cable package.  Remind me when you are older to watch The Walking Dead with you... although you may have watched several episodes as an infant when you didn't know what was going on and we didn't want to wait to see what happened.  Sorry about that if you have a subconscious fear of zombies.  Again, I'll pay for your therapy.

I wonder a lot about what the world will be like when you grow up.  It scares me, because as a professional worrier I see all the bad things that can possibly happen and stay up at night worried about international issues that I can't control.  It's what drives me to make a positive impact on the world, so I can leave it a little better for you then it was for me.  BTW - if I am a Congressman when you grow up, I took the "change the world for the better" thing further than I thought.

So, I hope the world gets better, and you have your own Friends and Full House shows to grow up on and quote incessantly as a young adult with your friends.  And I hope you read this one day, otherwise all this work is just a moo point.  It's like a cows opinion.  It just doesn't matter.

(see Friends to get that joke).

Love, Daddy