So today, as I mentioned this morning in my groggily just-got-home-want-to-go-to-bed-why-am-I-on-facebook post, is the birthday of TWO of my favorite people, in no particular order. In this case, Im going to talk about my dear nephew Asher. Ever since my niece, Coral was born, Id been by her side. Id bathe her, change her diapers, take her for walks in the back yard to see all of the animals, rock her for hours to get her to sleep during football games (this was back before I was integrated into the crazed fandom that is Sooner Football), and feed her yummy food and teach her words and hold her close. I always felt proud to have been part of the team that helped raise Coral to be who she is today. I thought I was complete. I never could understand how I lived my life before she had come. I thought that was all the new that I would ever feel. But no, my life, and perspective grew wider on August 3, 2011. I was still living with my mother, had just graduated from high school and was trying to find a reason for a lot of things. Asher had poked and poked at his mother for days, Braxton Hicks is a tricky thing to deal with and we were all antsy. It was August 2nd, the night before his birthday that I lay awake in bed and said outloud to myself, Youre going to share a birthday with Bj, arent you? and I fell asleep. That morning, I woke up and went to the hospital with Lindsay McCollum and David, my brother, and we stayed there the whole day waiting for him to be born. When he was, it was a great and wonderful feeling. The 48 hours Id waited in the hospital days before was nothing now, and I was suddenly compete again. Asher has been one of the best things that has ever been part of my life and I would die to be separated. His and his sisters moving back and forth between Mississippi was a hardship for me that only I can feel this strong, and its only understood by me. The way others have dealt with it I cannot know, nor understand. But it rocked my world and the constant worry of it did so as well. But good news comes to me and my family this year, Lindsay is coming back, and building her life here. My dear lovies are staying and I wont ever have to be without them in my life again. Asher Stellan has framed my entire being. As an Aunt, as a sister, and hopefully as a future mother someday. He and his sister make my life worth living. So happy birthday to you my sweet little best friend, I cant wait to see you and give you the gift I have for you and the cake Im making. I hope that you have loved me just as hard in the past 3 years as I have you. :)
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:50:41 +0000