Pink Saturday #14 and A Happy Birthday to Someone Special!!

Here we are at another Pink Saturday! I seem to be able to find pink somewhere each week so far. I want to thank Beverly at How Sweet the Sound who hosts Pink Saturday for us each week. Go visit her to see who else is participating in Pink Saturday. Okay, it is going to look like I am really pushing it to find pink here today. But there is a reason for this particular set of pictures. Today is my son's 28th birthday and since he is my first child, I have now been a mom for 28 years!! I find that hard to believe. So what do I have that is Pink on this anniversary of my son's birth. First of all, I want to note that his birthday falls on a Saturday and he was born on a Saturday. So I find myself reflecting on what I was doing on the Thursday before and the Friday before. On the Thursday before I had my college roommate over to our apartment for dinner. My due date was not until Jan 17th. I remember complaining to Debbie (my roommate who died in 1984) that I was tired of being big and awkward. I was just so ready to have this pregnancy over with and for the baby to arrive. Well, the next day, Friday the 19th, my water bag broke. At that time, the policy was that if the water bag broke the baby had to arrive within 24 hours. This turned into a long labor and our precious son was not born until Saturday morning. I missed having a C-section by 2 hours. The doctor who admitted me was all set to do a C-section on Saturday morning. But when he arrived to start his shift, there I was in the delivery room. I was very relieved to not have that C-section. Perhaps I complained too loudly and that was why my little guy came 4 weeks early. His weight was normal, nothing was wrong and I was able to take him home on Sunday, Dec. 22nd. My mother flew down to be with us and help me with learning to care for a brand new baby for the first time. Also it was the first time my family was split up at Christmas. It was strange for my dad and brothers to be without my mother and me. But it was all for a good reason. We also never got a tree that year, we got kind of busy obviously! LOL! So now that you read all that, you are probably wondering where is the pink here besides a new pinkish baby. On my table I have this basket of ornaments. You can see the basket in the first picture above. The next picture directly above is a close up of the ornaments in the basket. First you can see the ornaments I have posted on a Pink Saturday before I think. The fabric ones that are made from scraps of my wedding dress and my bridesmaids dresses. There is pink in the flowers in the print the bridesmaids wore. My sister-in-law had made these for us for our first Christmas.

This ornament you can see a little bit of pink in it. The present on there seems pink to me. This is the ornament given to us for our son's first Christmas in 1980. This side says "A son is...a maker of memories, a source of pride...A son is love."

Then the other side says "Christmas 1980"

Also in this basket is the ornament from our daughter's first Christmas in 1984. It is a pale pink ornament with girly things on it. This side says "Baby's First Christmas."

On this side, the flag at the top has the year on it. 1984. Across the bottom is says "A Baby Girl is love that grows in the warmth of caring hearts." There are different shades of pink in the pictures around this ornament. Try clicking on the pictures to see a closeup. Both of these ornaments are special to us. Since I don't have a big tree up this year, displaying them in a basket on the table was the next best thing. That way they are still out for me to enjoy!

Happy Pink Saturday!!!

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Now for the other part of this post. My son's birthday! I wanted to share a few pictures of him growing up into the man he is today.

This is one of my favorite pictures of him. This was his Kindergarten picture. I still have it in a frame. I just love the cute little guy he was here. Oh wait, he is still cute. I get to say that because I am his mom!
When he was in 7th grade, he dressed as an old guy for Halloween. He did a pretty good job acting the part. We used something to turn his hair all white. That was also the year he had to help out at the community Halloween party as part of an assignment for his social studies class. His teacher is involved in local government and so pushed community involvement whenever possible. His teacher and I used to live in the same neighborhood and went to the same schools and were involved in the same 4-H club. It was kind of strange that both of my kids ended up having him for a teacher. His younger brother was my age and was in most of my classes as we were growing up.
His graduation picture! He is one handsome/cute guy here. Remember now, I get to say that cuz I am his mom.
Here is a more recent picture of him taken maybe 3 years ago or so. I love his soft look here.
I made this collage after he graduated from high school and gave as a gift to family members. I don't remember how many of them I made. On the back of the frame I have a listing about what year and where each pose was taken. I have a picture from shortly after he was born and for every calendar year until he graduated from high school. That last picture on the right is was at graduation. I got pictures showing the different things he did growing up. A couple of Halloween pictures, a couple of band pictures, boating, fishing, first day of school in kindergarten, baseball, scouts and theater. The picture just to the left of him in cap and gown was his costume as King Grin in the play "Snow Queen". The picture before that is just before he went to London with his high school band to march in the New Year's Day parade there. That was quite an honor for the band to go there. I still have to make this collage for my daughter and she graduated in 2002! I would say I am very very very late making that one.

So thank you for sharing my pink saturday and my memories of giving birth and my son growing up to the man he is today. And son, if you are reading this, HAPPY 28TH BIRTHDAY!!! I hope you are having a great day. I miss you tons and can't wait until the next time we can get together.