For some reason I have been super weepy for the last week or so. So, to encourage that, I decided to go to Wal-Mart and look at birthday cards for my father who turns 50 next week.

Can I remember the last time I looked at greeting cards and did not cry? No, I can not.

Why? Do other people have this problem?

I am apparently so incredibly insane that I cannot look at bi-folded card stock sprinkled with glitter and primary colors without bursting into tears.

Many months ago, I was at Target looking at cards for no particular reason when I started bawling over this card about love. Something about "soul mates" and "created for each other." I actually bought it with the intention of giving it to Josh. It floated around in the back seat of my car for a while before I eventually threw it away because it was so wrinkled and coffee stained. Plus the spark was gone. With the card, not with Josh.

On the cover of the card I chose for my dad it says, "From your very first giggle, no one in the world can crack you up like your dad."

You open the card up to a picture of a little boy and his father (presumably) laughing and it says, "Happy Birthday from you easily amused (and always grateful) kid!"

Now, is this card particularly tear jerking to you?

No. But let me tell you, I had actual tears RUNNING DOWN MY FACE when I read it earlier today. In Wal-Mart. At 2:00 in the afternoon. On Saturday.

I am crazy.