when being a parent almost breaks your heart in two...

... when your 9 year old son, who has meticulously done the NCAA bracket (twice, since Gray purposely ripped up the first one that was proudly hung on his bedroom door), who has done amazingly well at picking the teams, then watches HIS team play like "shit." (His words, and he was sobbing when he said it, so I couldn't even get mad.) For the record, he is right, they played like crap, but my poor sweet soul of a boy! He's devastated and just keeps crying. Carolina got SPANKED.

I told him he has a lifetime of NCAA tournaments, but when you're 9, I guess that is not really any consolation.