Runaway October

Today is Mother’s Day in the USA. Other coun­tries have dif­fer­ent dates to appre­ci­ate mothers.

It’s really all about the ties of fam­ily, the strength of love and appre­ci­a­tion for the lead­ers in our life.

What bet­ter way to show you love your mom then by post­ing old pic­tures?

There’s Dad in the back.

Uncle Dar­rin, Grandma Betty, Mom hold­ing Cody.

Bon­nie and I front and cen­ter. This was 1989.

Hence those glasses. No, kid­ding. They’re lovely Mom.

Also 1989.

Grandma Betty and Bon­nie, Mom and Cody, Grandma List and Char­lie, then me.

Nice Bar­bie.

1991.

Grandma Betty, Mom hold­ing Erin, Grandma List and Cody.

Pretty Mama.

And just to prove I haven’t always been goofy looking:

Aug ’85. Almost three years old.

So make sure today that you give your mom a hug, tell her that she means every­thing to you, and be thank­ful for what you have.

And that she got rid of those glasses.

KIDDING! <3

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bot­tom of which you will always find forgiveness.

~Hon­oré de Balzac

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So I’ve got this brother, right? Erm, this lit­tle brother I should say. And you all know how lit­tle broth­ers are. Are you with me on this?

I hap­pen to be super blessed in that Cody is stay­ing with us for now. He makes our lives full… full of all kinds of stuff.

Like girl drama. I’m glad I was never that way! Ahem.

And dirty socks.

And he self­lessly tutors my two inno­cent chil­dren in ways to get them­selves hurt or in trouble.

He’s a fine upstand­ing exam­ple of trouble.

See this?

Taran­tula Hawk

Cody pissed it off.

And this nor­mally placid flyer stung him. Ha! Poor guy, just mind­ing his own busi­ness when some giant gets all huffy about a sting and douses you in Car­bu­re­tor cleaner.

Or how about when he tries to show Declan how to ride BMX, like a pro yo.

This is what Declan comes back look­ing like:

Now, what do you think Cody looks like? After all, Declan was under Cody’s tute­lage when this dis­as­ter happened.

Are you ready for it?

No really, you should be prepared.

Let’s look at this more closely, shall we?

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Nice huh? And that’s just his face.

This is right before all the scabs came off.

Pretty huh?

I don’t have pic­tures of the time after that. He still has the scabs on his shins. Prob­a­bly should have got stitches.

So that’s a very small glimpse of Life with Cody. I wont even go into where I spent my entire Tues­day evening because of him. Stay tuned for more Cody adventures.