My Favorite Son..... Wordful Wednesday

When I had my 1st child, I was a naive 21 year old .... I was not ready to be a mother, but God thought different..... when I was about 5 months along, and I got in a car accident when someone crossed the line and hit us head on... we rolled down a hill and my placenta was tore from the seat belt.... we were lucky to be alive, but they told us that they figured I was going to lose the baby......

Well, he was persistent and pulled thru, and he came into this world about 6 weeks early but at a whopping 6 lbs. 4 oz (that is big for a preemie)... I remember going into the NICU and having to have 2 nurses help me get him out of the incubator, because of all the tubes and wires he needed and he seemed so small and fragile... I had no idea what it meant to be a mother, but it seemed to come rushing over me as I held him in my arms....

We grew together..... he grew stronger and healthier, I grew up and started to come into my mothering wings.... I never knew that I could love someone so intensely and completely..... he could make me laugh, smile and cry.... he was my little man.... we experienced firsts together, good and bad, but being his mother made sense to me....

When he was a baby he had a binky (burp rag) that was his favorite, white with little blue cars on it, I mean we could go no where without it... once we thought we lost it, so I found one that looked similar to it, but NO, he knew the difference, and I have never in my life looked harder for an object, we found it,thankfully, and now I have it with all my other precious memories, it is paper thing and ragged , but we will keep it forever.....

My baby, my first born, my little man, turned 10 today..... I still can't believe it... he has informed me that he is an official "TWEEN" and is already preparing me for what it is going to be like living with a teenager.... he can irritate me more than almost anyone else, but I still catch glimpses of that little man I grew up raising.....

here are just a few pics thru the years.....

(I wish that my scanner was up and running, because I would have some great baby pics, but alas when I want something to work in my house it always seems to break down)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. J !!!! I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!!!!