Being A Mom

   37 hours. That's how long I was in labor. I was induced on a Wednesday and Jeremy was born on Friday. I was already 3 weeks late and he still was not ready to be born. After all that labor I ended up having a c-section-- but by that point I was just ready to have a healthy baby! Fortunately he was a healthy, beautiful little boy.

   Being a Mom is one of the most wonderful gifts God can give. I'm so thankful for Jeremy every day. Sure, he makes me batty sometimes. And let's face it - boys can be just plain gross. But it's so cool to watch him becoming a young man, with little bits of my personality and his Dad's personality all rolled into one. (And some traits that we wonder, "Where on earth did that come from?"). With all that I try to teach him, I realize there are many lessons he has taught me.

   I can't believe I have already had 13 Mother's Days as a Mom. Jeremy made a drawing for me yesterday and on the back he wrote a note about how he and his Dad would be lost without me. I'm always reminding them of that, so it is nice to actually hear him admit it!

Field Trip

    I volunteered to be a chaperone for Jeremy's 7th grade field trip to Wilmington NC. We went to the USS North Carolina Battleship and to the Aquarium in Fort Fisher, NC. It was a lot of hours on a bus with 7th grade boys (yes- nothing but boys), but it was fun. I had to keep up with 4 boys all over that Battleship, which was not an easy task since there are many flights of steep stairs. After we visited the aquarium they stopped for a few minutes at the beach to let everyone walk down to the ocean for a few minutes. That was really nice, but it made me more anxious for summer to arrive!
 
   This is a mixture of pictures I took with my camera and my cell phone of our adventure.

View of the Wilmington Waterfront from the bridge. 

My handsome fella and his buddies. 

I can't tell if they are shading their eyes or trying to salute.

 

Love that ocean color.

Some jellyfish have deadly stings- but they are so cool to look at.

We teased the poor boy in front of us the whole way about his hair. Jeremy is like me- bed hair cracks us up.