DON'T call me "Mama." Don't EVER call me that!

[DFW]

After we saw "A Fish Called Wanda," my wife told me (in English, which we normally do NOT speak at home), never to call her by the same name our children did. So, I didn't.

We were going through some olf papers to clean up the place, and came across this old photo of my wife and our elder daughter, around 1990. Our daughter would have been 7 and my wife 38. Our daughter looks pretty much her age here. My wife, as usual, looks about 20 years younger than hers.

I still don't call her Mama.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What a beautiful picture, my dear DFW!

Yeah, I hear ya. My husband has never called me "Mama" either.


He uses my name.

I love it!

[DFW]

2. Thanks you, dear Peggy. (and you have a wise husband)

I use my wife's name as well. We both prefer it

[leftyohiolib]

3. i call my wife hunny

[surrealAmerican]

4. That always sounded wrong to me too.

My husband and I use each other's names. The kids called us "Mom" and "Dad", and if we were talking to them about the other parent, we would say, "your mother" or "your father".

[shenmue]

5. That's a good picture

[DFW]

6. It was a random picture

They're always the best kind.

[Arugula Latte]

7. What, you don't want to be like Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar?

(Hmmm, maybe they haven't invaded Europe, so perhaps you don't know who they are. If so, consider yourself lucky.)

[DFW]

8. Um,, well, to be perfectly honest....

I haven't a clue who they are. I have to run over to NL in a few minutes, but I'll look them up when I get back.

[nomorenomore08]

10. 19 kids and trying for a 20th. Needless to say, they're "Quiverfull" Christian fanatics. n/t

[Jenoch]

9. Your wife and daughter are beuatiful.

I am sure they still are gorgeous. I seem to recall that you have been living in Germany for many years? As an American (if in fact you are) how did you happen to live in Germany all these years?

[DFW]

12. I am in fact American. "Bawn in the U S A"

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As were my parents and grandparents.

I requested a posting in Germany due to the fact that my wife did not want to move, and I did want to not lose her. It was a LOT of globetrotting/commuting for decades, and I didn't move my residence here until late 2011.

Luckily, my top brass was OK with that. Seems they didn't have anyone else who spoke German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish to fill the post anyway.

And yes, my wife and daughters are still gorgeous. Not that I'm partial, or anything. This is from last month, with my wife (now 62) on the left, and the daughter in the old photo (now 31) in the middle:
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[steve2470]

11. Lovely pic and of course you're a smart man

Mama is really a word reserved for mothers or a slang word. I hope you're well, friend.

[DFW]

13. I am more lucky than I am smart, just not stupid enough not to notice

I am, frankly, exhausted. This each-day-a-new-country routine is only not tiring if you're a character in a film, or 18 years old again (I'm not). But tomorrow is a holiday in Germany, and this time, I'm pretending to notice.