September 2, 2010

Hi Buddy,
Another day with nothing exciting to share with you. Awake, daycare, home, eat, change your diapers, sleep. You are continuing to wave at me, Mary and now even Stan the Man (our neighbor). I took you to daycare today & I did notice that you are not into waving when your friends are around, you just want to play with them rather than say goodbye to me. So, your dad will have to take it a bit less personally from now on.

I wanted to share something with you today. I share this not to make you feel bad about being here but because it was kind of eye opening for me. Your dad and I bought concert tickets to a band we both enjoy. In fact, we have seen them before and it was one of the best shows I have ever been to. I was so excited to go and your dad was looking forward to it as well. We look at the show and realizes that it starts at 8:00 with an opening act. The main group won’t start until 9. That means we won’t get done with the show until about 10:30 and with traffic, it could be 11:00 before we are out of the parking lot. We talked and we decided not to go. We were both not liking the fact that we would be taking you to a babysitter (Gramma Ruth’s) right at your bed time then picking you back up when you should be sound asleep. This is the first time we have truly been able not to do something for your benefit and I realized that I am truly and officially a mommy. You know what else I realized? It wasn’t that painful. I am disappointed but it is in your best interest and that is way more important to me than a concert. I feel so grown up at age 35 :)