Monday, May 23, 2011

The earth never stops turning,

my life never stops changing.  I read my last blog and realized. I do not have enough days in the week to keep up with the blogging. But I think for major events, it is a useful tool.
This year so far:
I became a full time RN.
Chap turned 11, Tyler turned 14, Jewelian turned 12,
Baby Harry turned 1 & had a BIG circus party.
My "little" brother and sister turned 30!!

It has been eventful enough for me already this year. Period.
However, life changes, families evolve...
which leads me to one of the proudest moments so far in my lifetime - my first born will be 18, graduate from high school, and leave for the United States Marine Corp all within a 2 week period.
My baby that I had when I was still a baby, has become a man.  Not just any man, a great man!  I had tons of amazing help along the way, I could not have done it without the support of many people.  But, if you have seen my boy and I together - I am the one person he is most like.  He pretends to hate it every time someone tells him "you are just like your mother," but if you look real close - he has that impish, shit-eating grin.
The poem I wrote for him for his senior ad in the yearbook is this:

What I would do to go back in time,
feel your tiny hands in mine.
We have grown up together through the years,
through fun, fights, laughter, and tears.
The most important thing I need you to know,
is that I love you more than you will ever know.

So proud! Love you MORE!,
Mommy & Harry

I can't wait to see the future, my heart is swollen with pride.
My eyes are swollen from the tears.  My baby is about to be a marine.

There will be lots of prayers, worry, and proud moments in my future - funny how that is kind of like the past.