14 Years Old

 

   My baby just turned fourteen. It doesn't seem possible that he is so close to driving a car! I cringe just thinking about it. Over the course of the summer he grew a lot taller and his voice deepened. He is starting to look and sound like a young man.

  Watching Jeremy and his friends and classmates I see that so much is the same as when I was his age. It brings back so many fond memories for us. The use of video games and cell phones has drastically changed the way kids are entertained and the way they communicate with each other. And it's kind of a shame. One thing I can say about Jeremy is he would much rather be running around outside than playing a video game or messing with his phone - and I'm very thankful for that.

   Sometimes 14 years old seems like an eternity ago for me and sometimes it seems like yesterday. At that age I didn't have all the tv channels to watch or video games to play. We had one tv so whatever my Dad was watching was what everybody had to watch! My sister and I grew up climbing around in the creek with our friends or we would walk to the Fast Fare to get candy or an Icee. We could take off and be gone all day and my parents didn't worry about us. I wish things were more like that today.

That's me on the right (yes, I was a dork and I couldn't do anything with my curly hair!)