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June 17 THANKS AUSTRALIA!
Written
by an Australian
Dentist
The
root of that prosperity can be found in the
Declaration of Independence , which recognizes
the God given right of each person to the
pursuit of
happiness. The
national symbol of America , The Statue of
Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the
wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the
people who built America
June 10 Wedding Bell Blues? Lately, Im not sleeping well. Im pretty sure that has something to do with the fact that my eldest son is getting married in exactly one month. Preparations have now swung into high gear and since he is in Tucson (en famille) and we are here, where the wedding is, things CAN get crazy. Its a wedding. So the right everything matters and what was once going to be small and simple has now seemed to grow to large and not so simple. Did I throw in expensive? Im not sure how you can have a wedding and it not be expensive. The music, the flowers, the decorations, the shower, the bachelor/bachelorette parties, the rehearsal dinner, the reception...the list goes on and on and on and while Im not the wedding coordinator and my daughter in law to be, Kathleen, is and has done a marvelous job of everything, I still am starting to feel stress. Aside from the female need for perfection, I am wondering if this anxiety feeling, which isnt altogether a bad feeling, has something to do with the emotional aspect of all of this. Certainly, anyone who knows me, also knows that emotions will run high from now until the day they leave to go back to Tucson. Couple that with the thought that everyone else in my family, my husband included, could be described as "saps", we are looking at a large outlay of cash just for Kleenex. My baby isnt, after all, a baby any longer! He stands 6 ft 4 inches tall and is also the proud father of 3 boys. He is also a hard worker, committed to excellence and someone I couldnt be prouder of. At age 33, the time for saying goodbye SEEMED like long ago, but I am finding all of those same feelings the day he left home, and again when he moved to Tucson, are sneaking back into my heart and my head. Maybe its the knowledge that once the wedding takes place, its official. He truly wont ever be "mine" again. Funny how mothers tend to do that. To take ownership of their children as tho we purchased them at some baby store long ago, and while I couldnt be happier with his choice of bride and while I know that he really hasnt been "mine" for a long time now, I am still finding myself struggling with letting him go, yet again. Do mothers ever really let their children go? I am pretty sure, at least in my case, that I wont. Emotionally (and I AM all about emotions!) Scott will always be that same little, blue eyed boy, with a mop of brown hair running thru my house on his way outside to play with the guys or on his way to a baseball or soccer game. I can differentiate between the man and the boy, but my heart, somehow, still holds dear that little boy. So as the big day draws near, I wanted to let you know, once again, my son, what you have always meant to me. You will know, if you dont know already, the sheer joy of parenting. Also the sheer drudgery, what seems like an endless list of thankless tasks that you perform daily, will make you wonder if there is ever any end in sight. But endings come much too soon and before we know it, our children are grown and standing before us, ready to begin their own lives. Something begins to tug at our heartstrings because we know for sure now, that time is passing and life is changing and while its a wonderful thing, the passing of each generation to the next, it also brings with it wistful reminders of times gone by and memories that have been long stored in a vault somewhere in our heads. I will watch you as you take Kathleen for your bride. I will smile, yes, through tears, as you pledge your love and devotion to her for the rest of your lives. I will hold fast to the memories of the little boy I held in my arms who became the man you now are, and for one last time, I will let you go. May 21 A memory from long ago LISTEN TO THE WARM........ROD MCKUEN I STOOD WATCHING AS YOU CROSSED THE STREET FOR THE LAST TIME. TRYING HARD TO MEMORIZE YOU. KNOWING IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT. THE WAY YOU WALKED, THE WAY YOU LOOKED BACK OVER YOUR SHOULDER AT ME. YEARS LATER I WOULD HEAR THE SINGING OF THE WIND AND THAT DAY'S SINGING WOULD COME BACK. THAT TIME OF GOING WOULD RETURN TO ME EVERY SUN-GREY DAY. APRIL OR AUGUST IT WOULD BE THE SAME FOR YEARS TO COME. MAN HAS NOT MADE THE KIND OF BROMIDE THAT WOULD LET ME SLEEP WITHOUT YOUR MEMOBRY OR WRITTEN EROTICALLY ENOUGH TO ERASE THE EXCITEMENT OF JUST YOUR HANDS. THESE LONG YEARS LATER IT IS WORSE FOR I REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS AS WELL AS WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. May 16 May 2009 The weekend of May 2, Scott and Josh flew into town (that Thursday actually) for a friend's wedding AND it was Josh's 7th birthday. We had a great time. Krista and Alex came over on Friday to give Josh his birthday present while Daddy was at the rehearsal dinner for his friend KT's wedding. Scott was best man. Patrick was a groomsman in the wedding. On Saturday, Josh and Gramma went shopping at Toys R Us for his birthday present followed by lunch at McDonalds (yippee!) Katie was in town to see them but left Friday night for the Kentucky Derby, an annual tradition for her and her friends. Ive posted pics. She came back on Sunday and our whole family spent the day together playing trivia and watching movies. There are also pics from Katie and Mike's trip to Florida. As always, Monday came too soon and Josh and Scott flew home. It wont be long, however, before all of them will descend upon us for the wedding in July. We cant wait!  April 16 Susan Boyle...Britain's Got Talent Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY Well worth watching and hearing. A favorite song of mine from a favorite Broadway play sung brilliantly (and I think better than Sarah Brightman) by a 47 year old Scottish woman whose voice impressed even notoriously un-impressable, Simon Cowell. All of us have dreams. Its nice to see someone's coming true. |
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