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twenty one years ago i was in labor (36 hours total). on this day i didn't know if i was going to have a boy or a girl. i wanted to be surprised. i knew this would be my last child. two babies would be good. i would not give birth until the wee hours of the morning. twenty one years ago i wasn't sure if this labor would end and had no clue it would get worse. i would still need a c-section, even though i was committed to have a regular birth. it just wasn't in my cards.

twenty one years ago, on this day i didn't know lots of things...
i didn't know i would have another baby boy.
i didn't know he would be in the hospital ten days after he was born.
i didn't know he would be almost a year old before he would sleep through the night.
i didn't know he would be a picky eater.
i didn't know he would go through several sets of training wheels before he could ride his bike without them.
i didn't know he would try to hatch eggs under his bed using his blankets.
i didn't know on his first day of school he would skip class to play with his brother and cousins at recess.
i didn't know i would get a call from the principle because this little boy patted the librarian on the bum.
i didn't know he would "accidentally" set the field on fire because he was "cold" one summer day.
i didn't know he would win awards for writing an essay on his home town.
i didn't know he would be on the honor roll his last two years of high school.
i didn't know he would wreck every single car he drove (at least once).
i didn't know he would work full time and go to college.
i didn't know he would turn into such an amazing young man.

twenty one years ago seems like yesterday.

while he was twenty he...
worked and went to school full time
presented a report in college on the time his mom took him and his brother "camping"
got his own apartment
hosted bbq's and movie nights regularly
fell in love with rock climbing
broke his leg rock climbing
bought a smoke machine because he thought it was cool
had sleep overs with his nephew
went shooting and fishing with his brother
he probably did lots of other things but doesn't share everything with his mom ;)

tomorrow he will be twenty one. twenty one trips around the sun. twenty one years of mischief and milestones. twenty one...