My little blond guy on the left is turning 30 tomorrow.I baked up a batch of brownies (triple chocolate) with peanut butter chips and sent them out via UPS 2 day to his office a couple of days ago.
We'd already showered him with a little birthday gifting...
I'd also sent him something else along the lines of what moms think of (no, not socks) because I'm a mom, and moms do that.
But I wanted to send him something that would smell a little like home and love.
So a box went out.I love you, Jonathan. I'm proud of you. Happy Birthday!
I enjoyed baking for you, and thinking of raising you.
We had such interesting experiences- Amtrak trips across the country stopping at all the tall buildings as well as Glacier National Park and Seattle. (Do you think anyone other mother/son team in the U.S. has traveled as far on rails in in the last part of the 20th century?)
Trying to spot the LA Lakers in the airport but seeing the Celtics instead. Creating treasure hunts for your gifts. Going to watch the women's basketball game at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Watching you with the our first Macintosh computer way back in '86 (remember me getting freaked out by the loud noise that the floppy disk made when you shoved it into the slot? "Mom, that's what they are supposed to do") Me taking you to MacWorld Expo in SF back in 1988 and touring the exhibit halls together.
The time we went skiing for the first time on Christmas Eve. Shooting model rockets with Jeff. Sitting in the jacuzzi and watching the stars. Watching our favorite shows (TPIR and Little House on the Prairie). Buying the cello and taking you to concerts. Watching plays with you in them at Poly High. Going to the hill at UCR to eat dinner.
The times that you were so very ill (in the hospital with pneumonia in 6th grade, and with chicken pox in 8th).
We had a mixture of times in our life. Most of the hard times were (and are) much too difficult and personal to post on a blog for the whole world to read about. Wouldn't want to do that.
I love you and are glad that you are my son. I would not trade you for anyone else.
I wish you the very best for the next year.
Hope the brownies arrived in shape and that the love spilled out of the box!
2 comments:
so i got a new blog.
because i forgot my password for the old one.
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im glad we got to have lunch today. that was nice.
Hi Yvonne!
I can't believe Jonathan is 30 years old!! I remember when you were pregnant with him, how much he kicked, in utero! I know we only live an hour and a half away.......WHY don't we keep in better touch with each other??!! Let's do so, please!
Love,
Valerie
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