book worms

I don't why I think this is so funny, I guess you just have to know my husband--hopefully everyone else finds the humor in it.

Like any successful couple, Ben and I have many differences, but just the right balance of compliments too. One of our biggest differences is my love for reading, and his, well, dislike for reading anything other than comic books. I can't really say it's his fault. He said his parents never read to him while he was growing up, so he never developed the "love." We agreed from the beginning that we were going to read to Henry every day so he would love to read when he was older. Lets, just say that the only one who reads to him everyday is me, but again, not Ben's fault, right?

One of Ben's biggest complaints about me is that I read too much. I will pick my book up during commercial breaks and read it. I also have to read every night before going to bed. Ben is usually asleep before I get 10 pages in.

So, anyway.....the other night I had gone to bed a few minutes before him so I could get a head start on my chapter. He came into the room and said, "oh, good, you're reading, I going to read my novel too."

I gave him a confused look. Since when did Ben read? He slid open his night stand and pulled out a comic book pricing guide with a big smile on his face. "That's your novel?" I asked. "Yes, it has words on it, and I enjoy reading it. I have all those old comic books in the basement, I want to see what they're worth." He replied.

I just bust out laughing. I couldn't decide what was more funny--the fact that he called his pricing book a novel, or the fact that he did it with a straight face.

Clearly, you have to know Ben and his silly sense of humor.