DailySusan Humor Blog

MY NAME IS GRANTY, AND I'M A HUSKERHOLIC

My adorable nephew Grant, son of my younger brother, lives in the Boston area. When he visited with his family last summer, he and our youngest, Maddy, had a whee together; she now considers him her best friend. Like our third daughter, Eden, he is happiest on a ballfield and has a thing for balls and bats. So for his 10th birthday, we sent him a Husker baseball shirt, commemorating the trip the University of Nebraska took to the College World Series.

In his thank-you note (my brother and sister-in-law don’t make no junk, so yes, he wrote a thank-you!), he said it was the first piece of Husker apparel he had ever had.

WHAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?

That’s incomprehensible to someone who lives here. Everybody wears Husker, all year long! I mean, they have TOILET PAPER and ROOFING TILES with the N.U. logo. And my brother Danny is one of the craziest Husker football fans in the universe. I couldn’t believe he hasn’t brainwashed his son by now.

So I was telling my cousin, and she quipped, “That’s terrible. We have to do an intervention.”

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Prayer request: There’s a soon-to-be college freshman named Alison on an 11-hour drive today with her parents to begin college in Ohio. She’s the star catcher and hitter on our traveling softball team, a year older than our daughter, but they’re very close friends. Why? Because they’re both hilariously funny. Ali is like another older sister for Eden, a great role model for hard work paying off in a college softball scholarship. Lord, send Ali wonderful new friends, protect her, grant her success, and draw her ever closer to You during her collegehood days . . . but don’t let her forget her old hometown bud. (2 John 1:8).