"His good grades seem effortless." But 8th grade was kind of a rude awakening to the fact that it couldn’t always be effortless. "He’s an amazing guitar player." But he has no desire to join a band or play in any school bands. "He could get a baseball scholarship some day." But he stopped playing baseball.
The phrase "so much potential" comes to mind, because we’ve heard it about him a million times. Sometimes that hope and your dreams of success for your child make you want more from them than they want to give. You have so much hope for your kids when they are young. I look at all the pictures of him and it all passes before me like a movie the ear infections, the way he memorized a map of the United States when he was just two, his obsession with the Power Rangers, making the Little League all-star team, playing that damn recorder in the school concert, mesmerizing the staff at Guitar Center when he played Comfortably Numb for them, his idolization of Eddie Van Halen and his obsession with anything from the 80’s….it all plays out in full color in my head, still life memories and film clips of everything from when he fell asleep in his high chair, face down in a bowl of oatmeal, to his brooding teenager phase that he’s just coming out of. Where the hell did fifteen years go? It feels like just moments ago that he was toddling around the backyard. Oh, yea, it’s my overactive emotions.įifteen. That’s the love light in your eyes wherever you goĮxcuse me. When you blow out the candles one light stays aglow Happy birthday and may all your dreams come true Happy birthday, happy birthday we love you When my kids were very young, I started using this Tom Chapin song for their birthdays instead of the traditional birthday song: Day 90 of 365: a year in songs and photos
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