Thanksgiving
Okay so I won't go into some long and drawn out post about what I am thankful for... the good news is, this year the I'm thankful for list is way longer than the what I am not thankful for list. Perhaps that is due to my growing up a little at a time, or the fact that I have a new job that is exciting and fulfilling, or the fact that the hour I spend going to work each day is with my husband and we have time to talk, to connect a little each day. I am so proud of my son and his "grown up" choices (only two weeks, but who is counting???) I have a mom and sister who love me unconditionally and a great nephew. I have classes and teachers and friends who keep my life exciting and ever changing, I am going to have the opportunity to teach again, boy, that makes me happy! I just try to concentrate on the great stuff and disregard the rest, sometimes that is not so easily done, but, I am a work in progress...Thursday is Thanksgiving, my
favorite holiday. The food, friends, family thing is just the great, I can't be happier than when I am in the kitchen making something yummy, but sharing it with your family is so much more...exciting, rewarding, fun, better, memorable...at least for me. So tomorrow I will be baking and roasting and cleaning and Thursday my family will be all around and I can't wait! Have a happy thanksgiving, kiss your mother and your sister and your children, your spouse and thank God for your blessings.
Happy Birthday Aaron
Today, is the day I have been dreading for months now, although I am so proud of my son, and truly I know he can't be that cute little four year old forever, or the tenacious second grader, or the sixth grader at science camp...somehow it is hard to grasp that he is now a (gasp)
adult... well legally anyway, he will always be my baby :~) We have been through a lot, my child and I from years as just the two of us, to a second marriage and the struggles and baggage that came into our lives with the new man... then cancer with his dad and my bacterial infection, all in the same year, then junior high (which frankly, was a blast) and then high school, his first orchestra concert in a tux (so grown up). How about the first girlfriend and going to the prom?
This year, at the beginning of his senior year, I had to go and sign some papers for golf, (
did I know he was playing kind of thing) and it struck me, this is the last time I will have to/get to do this...I cried all the way back to work.
That was the first in a series of melancholy days, but we made it through, I spend a lot of teary days making the slide show for his birthday party, and working on his graduation album, going thru the years, well, it does something to you. I did manage to not have a meltdown on Sunday...just like I promised.
I had a party for Aaron on Sunday, and his dad, Brian's wife Colleen, Brandon, his grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousin all came.... we had fun, but I was too busy to take many photos (can you believe that???)... I
will whip out the camera tonight at dinner. My sister, my nephew and I are taking the birthday boy out for pizza and wings later today to celebrate, so that will be fun....
Happy Eighteen Son. I love you more than you know...Mom
