Chief D

Today’s the day!!! D gets a nickname. Well a nickname that he wants anyway. He had one in high school but never really cared for it. D and his friend Jimmy P.P. call each other “Bung” but that is less of a nickname and more of a term of endearment….for them anyway.

Today is his promotion and his nickname? “Chief” I hope it sticks. In an effort to encourage others to call him “Chief” I will be referring to D as Chief in all my future posts….I hope I can remember.

I’ve never had a nickname. That may not be entirely true….who knows how people referred to me when I wasn’t around. You can’t really do a lot with Mary. Really all you can do is add to it. I was called Marybeth when I was little, Mary-Pie to my dad things like that.

Even our kids’ names don’t lend themselves well to nicknames. Chief (hey I remembered!) had hopes of calling our youngest by a nickname…but H doesn’t like it and won’t answer to it. So we’ve just made up things to call them. I call them Chicken Pot-Pie and Turkey Tetrazzini, Skeisics and Snicklefritz, Click and Clack, or Thing 1 and Thing 2. I could go on….

Anyway…..I am so excited for my husband, but not because of getting called “Chief”, because this promotion is a big deal. It is recognition for his work and experience. It is at once a fruition and mid-point of a long held goal.

And if his only goal had been to make our lives better…he did that a long time ago.

We love you Chief!