So last weekend, when we were at the ER dealing with Matthew’s encounter with a very hard bench, the nurse was quite smitten with nine-month-old Luke.  She kept smiling at him, and asked permission to rifle his gravity-defying hair. She also called him a “corker.”
I smiled at that. Hey, I haven’t heard that word in a long time! I love it! I must start using it more often!
And then I realized that I’m not entirely sure what, exactly, a corker is. And – as one of my favorite high school English teachers used to say – if you can’t define the word, you don’t really know it.
So I looked it up. Guess what? It means “someone or something that is astonishing or excellent.”
I know I’m Lukey’s mom, and therefore somewhat biased, but you know what?
That nurse was absolutely right.
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