Derek's Secret Revealed

One day back in December we were driving to meet some friends for lunch after church. Derek was being a total hyper-energetic pest on the entire drive to the restaurant. He was singing, being stupid, and intentionally trying to bother me. Just as I'm starting to get irritated, we pulled into the parking lot of the restaurant, and he just suddenly stopped. And that's when it hit me!

It had finally dawned on me why I feel like I've known Derek my whole life, as if I even knew him before we ever met three years ago. My discovery is this... Derek is actually the Singing WB Frog, Michigan J. Frog. You know, the one who will sing in front of the man but then won't do it in front of anyone else. It drives the man bananas! Remember that character? Well, that's Derek.



I just knew that as soon as we walked into that restaurant, our good friends would wonder why I'm on edge, while never suspecting that Derek is actually the type of guy to be hyperactive. He always gets away with everything because in public he's so quiet that nobody expects that from him. It's like when he's in front of me, he's belting out "Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal..." and then as soon as we get in front of people, he just says "Riiiiiiibit!" And everyone thinks that I'M the crazy person who is always on edge and can't take a joke or something. Thank goodness my immediate family finally have gotten to see some of his antics!

But in all honesty, I wouldn't really have it any other way. I love my Bear and all of his different personalities... I mean... facets. :-) He is the most wonderful husband, and I'm very glad that he has a little bit of sparkplug in him, too!

In case you have no idea what characeter I'm talking about, watch this video: