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Monday, February 20, 2006

My "baby" is 32 today!

It was cold that morning 32 years ago when we headed to Louisville's Kentucky Baptist Hospital from Irvington. We had left Kimberly and Laura with friends there. It was an uneventful labor and delivery. We were taken care of by several of my former students from the nursing school. Jonathan weighed a little over 8 lbs. and thrived despite his sisters' attempting to take care of him. The birth announcement read "Daddy's pride and Mother's joy!"
Now it is 32 years later and we are separated by thousands of miles. He works in security at a call-in center and is completing studies for a degree in accounting. He takes two courses a term, each of which meets for four hours one night a week. He has his accounting final on Thursday night so has two nights of study group. His other class meets on Monday nights.
He said that some of the women at work always fix something to help him celebrate. Last year one of the women made him a peanut butter pie which he had talked about. I believe it was her first attempt at that recipe. Jonathan had mentioned eating some at the Whistle Stop in Glendale.
Happy Birthday, Jonathan!

1 Comments:

  • What a sweet post. Happy B-day, Jon! Laura and Javier look great in the previous pic! Love you!
    Khrista

    By Blogger Khrista, at 9:10 AM  

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