Yesterday was my nephew's seventh birthday. He is such an energetic child, he is also the image of his mother. People sometimes tell me the same thing about my little girl. I can not count the times people have shown me my baby pictures and expressed how much like me my little girl looks. To be perfectly honest, she does look like me but she also looks like my husband, her father, his baby pictures look a lot like her as well. My mother told me that my daughter inherited my facial features but the inherited the shape of my husbands face, and studying her face I had to agree. It is something when complete strangers see the three of us together and say that they know who her parents are. To me that is a good feeling. I just sometimes wonder who she will act like as she grows up.
My nephews know who their father is but they do not have much to do with him. He is a dead-beat dad as far as I am concerned. All he cares about is where his next beer or pack of smokes is coming from. He pays child support but it comes out of an allowance his dead mother left for him when she died. The man has never held down a job, but in a way I can't really blame him. His mother promised him that he would never have to, and even in death she is still paying all of his bills. He will never have any responsibility, and no decent woman would want a man like him, unless she likes being beaten when he's had a bit to much to drink, which is very often.
