My Firstborn Is Thirty-One Today
Scott’s thirty-first birthday is today, March 24, but we celebrated his birthday while he was home this past week. On Thursday night the four of us went to Olive Garden for his birthday dinner. He chose where we would go. Then on Friday I baked a cake and we had cake and ice cream after a delicious dinner that Christy cooked. Saturday morning I got up early, at least early for me, and prepared pancakes. He always requests pancakes when he is home and Saturday was the first morning that we could eat at a reasonable hour since Brian has to be at work at eight. No way was this mom going to get up and have a pancake breakfast prepared and ready to eat around seven in the morning. Scott woke me at eight thirty and asked if we could eat about nine. The only morning I get up anywhere near that early is Tuesday when I have to be at church for Bible study at nine thirty. Sunday mornings I can sleep until fifteen minutes after nine. I think it is very safe to say that I am not a morning person.
I could not get to the chest that contains all the baby pictures but did happen to have one of Scott when we lived in Savannah, Georgia. I know it is hard to believe but he is only fifteen months old in this picture. He was only nineteen inches long when he was born but he was three feet tall in this picture. It is easy to see why he is now six feet five inches tall. A great memory flashed in my mind when I saw the mud on his knees and left hand. He had splashed water out of the pool, got out of the pool and played in the mud, and then got back in the pool to wash off. His Grandma Gottreu snapped the picture before he sat down and muddied the water.
After looking at this picture for a while it finally hit me that in this picture Scott looks just like me when I was a baby. Need to find a picture of me and post it for comparison.
I have been feeling a little blue since Saturday when Scott went back home to Fort Worth. I always have an empty feeling when he goes home after being around for a few days. I felt the same way when Brian would be home from Massachusetts and then would leave to go back to college. Fortunately these days Brian is around all the time except when he is at work. Makes me think of a discussion Brian and I were having some time back. He was saying that here he was in his late twenties and he was living with his Mom. I told him to tell people that his mother lived WITH him. Have no idea if he has done that or not.
I don’t know where I have been for the past three or four years but I was surprised when Scott said that he only has one more semester in seminary. I know that he will be so happy to graduate. And probably only God knows what Scott will be doing after he graduates. At one time he wanted to be a missionary or the Director of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry on a college campus. I did not even talk to him about his future plans when he was home this week.
Today we started a new Bible study, which is going to be very interesting. I think it will also be rather hard, or at least take a lot of thinking and praying.