Where Did It Go?

It wasn't that long ago...really it wasn't...when I was anxiously awaiting the birth of my baby. Since he decided to enter the world sideways my doctor and I agreed he'd come out via surgery a couple of weeks before his (although at the time we didn't know that) due date. It's a Nick (as opposed to It's a Rachel)!

He was born on President's Day (I remember the anesthesiologist complaining about not getting the day off). We get to celebrate it that way again this year. No school! No work! After surviving the having the other 6 boys in our little house Saturday, we'll have the rest of the weekend together as a family with no obligations beyond my obligation to myself to train for my 1/2 in March.

We're doing it a bit differently this year. Store bought cake for the party. Pizza. Movies and video games, probably a nerf battle or two. We'll be upstairs hanging with the little boys. It won't be quiet, but it will be simple.

11. Almost in middle school. He seems big and small all at the same time. Still trying to figure out what to do with the extra emotion when he misses the 3 point shot at the end of a tight game. Filling the house with Clair de Lune piano solos at different moments of the day. He is a treasure. He amazes me with what he knows, and with what he doesn't. It goes just about every way every day.

I suppose it won't be long until I am writing about my soon to be high schooler, my college boy,... But for now just let me live in the moment, this moment, the best one yet. Until the next one.