Possible success

There is an amazing paradox in life. You can do things while holding a child that might get you institutionalized without them. For example you can sing, spin, bark like a dog , or even do the chicken dance, and people think "Oh how sweet". Trust me, if you do this while alone, people move away, and wonder if they should contact authorities. I do use my children at times in difficult moments. One of those moments was the other day. There is an elderly man in our neighborhood and, like Jeff says, he possibly originated the evil eye. He does NOT seem fond of Jeff or I. He will not even respond to us when we speak to him. However, he will respond to our children. For this reason (and that I am a big chicken) I asked Cooper if he wanted to walk to the corner store for an ice cream (I did feel bribery might be in order). I told him we were going to go pass the guy in our street and give him a high five. Our reliable elderly neighbor was standing in his normal spot, shirtless, and not smiling. We approached him, and I said "Good evening...Hey Cooper let's give him a high five." I held up my high five... he half way raised his hand... and I gave him the saddest high five of my life. There wasn't much contact. It didn't really matter because he was mostly ignoring me and looking at Cooper. Cooper held up his high five. The man asked, "What is he wanting?". I said "A high five. Like this", and I gave Cooper five. We stood there for a moment. Cooper had his hand up ready for a high five and he poked it with his finger. I said "Have a good evening". He smiled and chuckled and we walked away. Cooper said as we walked away "He does NOT know how to give a high five". When we were far enough away, I started giggling and laughed at moments for the rest of the night. I wonder what our little Mexican shirtless street neighbor thinks of us now, but it has to be better. We did get him to smile

We hope you are all reaching out and touching someone.