Son Days...

Today I am taking it all the way back to kindergarten!  Yes, kindergarten, for kicks and giggles, and perhaps a few tears..oh, who am I kidding?  Where's my Kleenex and chocolate? Here we go...August of 2005...Nathan began kindergarten.  This was Nathan's first year of school and his first year of school came less than two months after his brother passed away....talk about hard to let him go!!!  After losing Matthew, it was, for a lack of adequate words, devastatingly difficult to let go of Nathan immediately after...It was the opposite of natural because after loss, you want to hold everything else that is close to you as tight as you can.  I felt like I had a big monster pulling my child away.  I was so sick still and I knew I had to get better for him.  The emotional battle coupled with the physical battle was heavy...on the days I didn't think I could persevere through, there stood this beautiful brown eyed boy to help me.  He was my inspiration and my greatest sou

If you are following this blog, you are aware that I am writing about my son's high school senior year and all of the sappy senior mama moments that I am experiencing along with it...this is going to include some of that, but it is going to also contain content that is so important to us as parents...raising Godly gentlemen.   This past week was Nathan's last high school homecoming parade, pep rally, football game and homecoming dance.  After the parade my sister turned to me and she said "You weren't ready for this to be over, where you?"  No, no I was not.  I took a deep breath and had a flashback of the last four parades that ended in this very place full of memories for us!  I smiled.   Then the pep rally happened, the football game happened, and then the last homecoming dance happened... And just like that...it was over! It all happened and left me with some serious sappy senior mama moments and some incredible memories of my boy smiling, enj

THE day that is affectionately known to the Weatherly boys as "the best day of the year" was yesterday...the first Saturday of college football!   It is very rare that I sit at a keyboard on a weekend...but yesterday, kind of got me in the gut so I wanted to capture my thoughts here for a bit...I am finding it hard to keep the many memories running through my head to stay in order, but they need to come out!  So here we go... College football... College football games were some of my first memories with Ronnie and his father...Ole Miss, of course!  The memories of the RV road trips coupled with cabins at Sardis Lake are certainly rolling through my catalog; one particular memory sticking out.  Before we were married, we went with Ronnie's parents in the RV to Sardis Lake.  I slept on the bed adjacent to the bed that Ronnie and his father slept on.  I woke up in the middle of the night to see Ronnie and his dad sound asleep...and as I looked at them, I notic