Blake was born 20 years ago on this date. I was 20 back then.
I remember reading a parenting article in a magazine at the hospital when he was born talking about how a new baby will totally change your life and things will never be the same again. Never again? I cried. I had a momentary lapse of worrying that I had embarked on a journey I would never be able to return from. I didn't know if I was up to the task.
Oh, I won't gloat and tell anyone I've somehow managed to suit myself up to the monumental task of nurturing, caring, molding, and shaping the life of another human being from the very first impressionable beginning. Actually, there have been quite a few occasions that I've noticed my children have taken up some undesirable quality I am quite sure they must've picked up from me on a day when I wasn't making good impressions!
Nevertheless, unstoppable journey that it is, I'm glad we were blessed enough to have ventured out.....and not just once either!
Happy Birthday, Blake! We're glad you came. Our lives have never been the same since.....but that's a good thing. As one of the other children mentioned, "He's now out of the terrible teens!" LOL.
~Colleen
