Birth Days

It took me so many years to become a mother that I began to think it would never happen. Now I am a grandmother and I can’t begin to tell you where the years have gone to.

On Mother’s day, four years ago, I received a Fed Ex package on my doorstep. Opening it up I found a note that said, “We couldn’t afford to buy you anything for Mother’s Day, so we thought we’d send you a little something homemade!” A sonogram was attached to it and that was my first look at Lennon.

Now, as I celebrate my birthday, along with Lennon and Chauncey, I am so excited to announce that my other son, the one in Denver, and his wife are expecting a baby in June.

My oldest grand children, Brooke and Tiffany are in high school and junior high now. How can that be possible?

I adore my children and I’m not ashamed to say so. The years I spent rearing them were some of the hardest and very best of my life. I take parenting very seriously and feel it is the greatest adventure a human being could ever have.

You receive this tiny little creature who is totally dependent on you and are given the opportunity to bring it up to maximize its potential in every way possible. Child rearing is the finest art on earth and the rewards never end.

I have only to think the name of one of my children and my heart overflows.