Hi Marcia, yes, you will certainly miss him. I know he is going off, but where to (maybe I should read here more?)? That was Jim, I'm Adi. He put me on the blog again, big time this time! I'm sitting on a berm by some red crepe myrtles, taking a rest from our walk. ..
Both our kiddies are in college now, but the cats remain! It's a bit difficult to adjust, but in any perfunctory communications we have had in the past 1 1/2 weeks seems to show the kids as adjusting well.
From the look of his jacket, he could be going to school in my hometown. (Not that NCSU has a monopoly on red varsity jackets with S's on them. I'm just sayin')
Speaking of, NCSU features prominently in my R/T this week.
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
25 comments:
So handsome! Nice photos.
Happy Ruby Tuesday!
Paz
They do grow up too fast.
Great photos and wonderful memories.
That's what great photos are for.
Have a wonderful Ruby Tuesday.
Why do kids grow up so quickly?
Very nice. Don't you just wish you could do a rewind sometimes?
Hi Marcia, yes, you will certainly miss him. I know he is going off, but where to (maybe I should read here more?)?
That was Jim, I'm Adi. He put me on the blog again, big time this time! I'm sitting on a berm by some red crepe myrtles, taking a rest from our walk.
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Handsome he is! Thanks for sharing those priceless photos:) Mine is posted HERE! Drop by if you get a chance;)
And a very handsome young man he is. Great series. Good luck to your boy/man as he heads off into the future.
Marcia, he's going off to college? (my guess)
They grow up too fast most times!
Both our kiddies are in college now, but the cats remain! It's a bit difficult to adjust, but in any perfunctory communications we have had in the past 1 1/2 weeks seems to show the kids as adjusting well.
As for the parents...
What a good looking young man! My son is going 17... I miss his cute face and his barrage of questions.
Oh nice shots, fancy truck.Great looking kid!
oh my. i got a tear in my eyeballs...hey, thx so much for ur cont'd visits. ur a doll. *lovies*
Nice series for RT.
From the look of his jacket, he could be going to school in my hometown. (Not that NCSU has a monopoly on red varsity jackets with S's on them. I'm just sayin')
Speaking of, NCSU features prominently in my R/T this week.
He's a handsome fellow. Happy WW
Great reminder that they grow up so fast! Wherever he's headed, he's destined to break lots of hearts along the way!
Happy WT/WW!
love the pictures
A handsome young man and great looking truck. They grow up too fast.
This is a great red truck, we have one in our family also!
Some lovely kiddos there!
what a good looking young man! great idea for a really personal RT
It is hard to see them go. Great sequence for both memes and I love the shots.
It definitely goes by too fast! I gotta freeze my son in second grade.
At least you've done it once before. I'm excited that Richie gets to come out and say bye before he leaves.
I agree with many - very handsome. He'll be on every young woman's wish list.
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