I did not get a post done yesterday. I started one then the phone rang and then I started doing the cooking for David's special-request birthday dinner (whole-wheat penne pasta with vegetarian marinara sauce, corn, garlic bread and chocolate-chip cookies), then a migraine started coming on and by the time we finished eating I was on the verge of being completely incapacitated so I headed straight for my mattress and that was all she wrote for me yesterday.I love David. What a special blessing it is to be his mom. David is an AMAZING young man. So talented, self-disciplined, and just a great guy. Happy birthday to my boy. David, I hope you enjoy your 19th year on the planet, and that you achieve your goals. It will be a big year for you. You are awesome and I love you.
"The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best." —Hamilton Wright Mabie
"When a woman is twenty a child deforms her, when she is thirty he preserves her, and when forty, he makes her young again." —Leon Blum
