September 22, One of My Favorite Days
Today my sweet, precious baby boys are 14 and 15 years old. How that could possibly be possible, I’m not really sure. I don’t feel but about 17, myself. Hmm…
Here they are in their (almost) full marching uniforms, sans hats. (I’ll get that ‘hat pic’ for you soon, Mom! I keep trying to catch them, but, things get hectic when they’re going out on the field, etc. LOL!)
Aren’t they just adorable, though?
Yesterday, I was looking out the kitchen window, watching Patrick walk up the driveway. He stopped to help his dad lift a fairly heavy generator. There was no one in that driveway with Mark, but, a handsome young man. Where my baby’s gone, I do not know. He was this squishy little blob on my left shoulder just the other day.
And Shawn – with his mysterious, rocker-boy elusiveness …completely adorable, for sure – has gaggles of girls swooning, but, has me wondering where my little munchkin went. That little baby smelled so good – his head smelled like glue – I wanted to suck him right up my nose. Odd, I know – but, he was just so sweet and smelled so yummy. We’d fall asleep every afternoon looking into each other’s eyes – me and Shawn and God – the three of us taking an afternoon nap together.
OMG, that is just quite enough, people. Quit pulling the sap out of me! I mean it. I get so unbelievably homesick for Texas on my children’s birthdays that I have to put my emotional guard up today – I’ll sap tomorrow! Now quit messing with me! I’m strong. I’m a ‘thinker’. No ‘feeler’, here, no sir! Not me!
I don’t feel a damn thing!
Except maybe the need to say….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATRICK AND SHAWN! I LOVE YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!
Happy Birthday to your boys! They look so good in their uniforms. Does their band compete at contests for marching bands. Ours did, when my kids were in it. Lots of traveling was involved. It was so much fun.
Thank you so much, Karen! Yes, we do have contests – we had two on Saturday, in two different towns! And we have another tonight at the local college! The whole family’s lives revolve around band, actually – but, we are having a BLAST!
I LOVE the uniforms!!! Could they look more different from each other? They look so grown up! If only you’d put them in a box under the bed when I told you so…. “Hey DJ, get over here. I got a nice box for you to play in!” I better get him under the bed now!
Happy Birthday, boys! Enjoy the rest of being kids coz as eager as we all are to grow up, we are then grown ups for a very long time!
and Mom, yes, your babies are growing up but they will still ALWAYS BE your babies!
Jan
Cool, Sis. You must be very proud. I know I am.
The “me and Shawn and God” part really got me. What a sweet, sweet tribute to your boys. Made me smile the whole way through.
They look so …. shiny! So tall and grown up. *sniffle* darn boys and their growing!