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Dadvice B101.5���s ���Chris & Dee in the Mornings��� Chris Centore Keep On Truckin���! It all started last year when my parents came in for a visit and to celebrate Little A���s third birthday. We decided to take the family to Splitsville for bowling, pizza and to keep my Nana occupied for a few hours. After we decided that a ���boy car��� and a ���girl car��� was the best way to convoy down 95, my dad, the boys and I began our trek south to the area I like to call red lights-a-go-go, or route three. Shortly into our trip my dad had the boys enthralled with every truck we passed by describing in great detail the contents of each one. The trucks were full of peanuts, sofas, bananas and I even think we passed a truck full of spaceships...even I thought that was cool. This game was so awesome we had to play it on the way home, as well. After my folks left the truck game became mine, now one might think I would be creative enough to describe a few different things in each truck we happened to pass since then. Well not so much! I stink at the truck game. I can never come up with anything clever or fun, and even when I use the same contents my dad did, the boys are not impressed. So as you can imagine every trip I now take on 95 with the boys is just a little bit of a challenge. Traffic, a carload of kids and now the truck game. I bring all of this up because like a lot of folks around here I drive 95 to and from work each day and every time I see a truck I���m reminded of how awful I am at a game I should really be at least decent at. And even though my dad is 500 miles away I���ll hear his voice eloquently describing the truckload of batteries I���m passing on my way to work. I then wonder if my dad just knew I���d be terrible at the truck game, and got the boys into it just to torment me. Sort of like a small bit of payback for me being a typical teenager in my time. Honestly, I doubt he���s that devious, then again I thought of it and we���re blood so it could be true. Either way, it���s a great way to think of both generations I am surrounded by and how we all have our special ways of being a family. By the way I���m sure when my boys become parents, I���m gonna be awesome at the truck game! I hope your year is off to a great start, thanks for taking the time to read and listen and may 2013 be the best year for us all. ~ Chris 36 Fredericksburg Parent and Family ��� January 2013