My Husband's Phone Gets More Love Than Us
During a parent-child activity at kindergarten, the teacher asks the children to draw what they want to be when they grow up.
The other kids draw princesses, dinosaurs, and astronauts, but my five-year-old son, Evan Jepsen, draws a cell phone.
Across its screen, he's written a message in crooked letters.
"Incoming call from Annette."
"Why do you want to be a phone?" the teacher asks, puzzled.
"Because Daddy loves his phone more than anything," Evan replies earnestly. "When Mommy asks him to come to dinner, he gets annoyed. But whenever Annette calls, he smiles right away."
The classroom falls silent, and I stand frozen in place.
"Once, Mommy had a fever of 102°F, but Daddy said he