Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Happy Colintine's Day

 Cue 

the balloons, 

noisemakers 

and 

cake bakers.


It’s Colin’s Birthday...


enter stage right.




Wait, 

maybe it's ...

stage left?


For some reason 

I get "stage right” and

 “stage left” 

 jumbo jumbled.


Is it Colin’s right...on stage? 

Audience right? 

But, what if you are right handed,

and eat left handed

hmmm?




Colin has explained the difference to me and 

it makes sense 

but when he says …

”meet you after the show stage right" 

I nod like I know…

but it doesn’t add up 

to any cents.


I do much better with 

backstage.

backstage @ the Grand Ole Opry



Anywhoooo…..


If you know, you know...

today is officially 

Colintine's Day...

Colin’s birthday and Valentine’s Day

packaged together.


His birthday is a birthday/valentine combo...


kinda like a McDonald's

Happy Meal combo

with a bucket of fun.



We have sooooo

many Colin stories through the years...

 the other day  

PaulA reminisced about the morning when 

Colin was in high school 

and about to take the dreaded

SAT test for college.

Before PaulA dropped Colin for the test

 he told Colin

  the word 

"Enigma" 

had been on his test and 

explained the meaning.


After the test, 

we asked Colin how he did...

Colin smiled 

and said,  

"Well, I know I got one right...

"Enigma" 

was on the test."




Happy Colintine's day 

to the guy with the birthDAY 

who always

makes our Valentine's Day 


extra sweet and memorable...

and who brings the 

L-O-V-E 



to the guy who grew up to find his love for music

in the 5th grade 




and 


the guy 

who followed that passion of... 


playing music 



and songwriting.




Whether Colin enters

stage right 

or 

stage left……


on 

Colintine's Day 

he is 

center stage. 




And it is no 

enigma that 

Colin 

is

center stage 

in  my heart

my blond hair bowl cut baby





today and forever.


🩷




Sunday, January 21, 2024

Happy Birthday Chelsea



This year, 

Chelsea's birthday is extra sweet.



It's her first Birthday 

as a 

mother of 3. 




Chelsea and Austin have been blessed with 

3 darlings 

who promise to make her day

even more special

and a tad more chaotic.


 

Ansley, Presley and Daisy don’t know it yet, 

but they are 

learning from a pro... 

  

learning about 


life, love, laughter…


taking pictures :)



and making 


 life events and birthdays

extra special 

and 

memorable.

half year = half cake 



Chelsea puts her heart and soul into it all...

because 

that's who she is through and through...

true-blue,

tried and true.



Anywhooo….



I’m remembering Chelsea as a newborn…

our first, 

born in Jacksonville, FL

and me as a newbie mom, 

trying to entertain my 4 month old between sleeps…

                                                     "Roly Poly bird's my friend" sung 100 times/day.


feeding, singing, swinging, singing, swinging, feeding...

thinking how am I gonna entertain her 

for the rest of the day?  

But then in 

a blink of an eye, 

a bat of an eyelash,

or 

a nanosecond of time….

 38 years go by

and we have



3 GREAT kids 



and 


4 GRAND kids.







So much time has passed

 after all these years,

I hardly recognize myself 

back then.




Sometimes I like picturing our family back in our house in Avon, CT;

remembering Chelsea tucked in her blue sponge painted bedroom, 

Colin in a bedroom plastered in music posters and sports banners and 

Bri in her sunny yellow room...

that feeling of content that my 3 lil chicks were under my roof...

safe and protected



before they grew up and 

made their own way into the world.



I can still see Chelsea…

every morning before school, 

running to her window of her 2nd floor bedroom

waving to her Dad...👋👋

and her Dad waving back through his sunroof 👋 👋

as he drove by the front of the house on his way to work.


And if you know Chelsea, 

when it becomes her thing…

it’s her thing.  



However,

Chelsea is still a young mom 

with oodles of time with her own

3 chicks under her roof 


to mold,

behold, 

handhold...




and to love 


millionfold.




Happy Birthday 

to our first born…


the first 

to teach us 

about parenthood...




the first

to teach 

her siblings

about fun with 

life long chums...

first friends...forever friends



and 


the first

to teach us how 

BIG 

and 

mushy

our hearts could become.






Happy Birthday Chelsea,


We send our love 

today 

and 

every day 👋👋


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