Christian’s Birthday
Last Tuesday was the eve of a day that had come all too soon!
I know that time passes fast; and that after you have children, it speeds up. However, this rapid pace has caught me off guard. Thursday…my first born turned 14!.
I am aware of the fact that for some, a child growing up is just another reality that goes almost unnoticed.
For me, it is yet another reason to get uncomfortably nostalgic; and overwhelmingly emotional!
I can be so mushy sometimes. Really…its weird; and the fact that my wife keeps spoon feeding me “chick flicks” is no help.
Just when I think I have shed off any “weak and soft” characteristics, Cheryl comes home with “The Holiday;” a pretty good movie, but definitely a certified chick flick.
She then follows this up with movies like…”Dan in Real Life,” “Fools Rush In,” “Spanglish;” and any other movie that is about love lost, then found again.
Look, here you go, any movie that can make you cry is a chick flick. Guy movies make you want to go kill something.
So, now that I am an emotional wreck, I am freaking out that my son is turning 14.
As I was sitting is this very chair this weekend, I was thinking about the fact that I have about four years left with him at my side.
Four years is not a lot of time people. I keep asking him if he still likes me and he just looks at me like I’m an idiot…so I guess that we are still cool. I will begin to worry when he no longer looks at me at all.
I know that some readers have been wanting me to get back to the tree house project; and I will do that next week, I promise.
I need to say that Thursday was December 1, 2010. Exactly 14 years ago, that day, almost to the minute (it is now 10:02 p.m.) Cheryl called me and told me that her water had broke and that she was driving to the hospital in Tucker.
That phone call changed my entire life, forever. Last week, we celebrated that awesome little life that began this story I tell.
I wanted you to know that Christian’s birthday was last Wednesday; and 14 years goes by way too fast.
Jason, Father of six