24 Reasons I'm Proud of My
Son
With Mother's Day this
Sunday, I thought I'd jot down a few thoughts about how proud I am to
be a mom. I really have a gazillion reasons, but am only listing 24
since that's the number of years I've had the privilege of being this
extraordinary person's mom!
1. He's kind.
2. He's considerate.
3. He's compassionate.
4. He graduated both high
school and college with high honors...all while being on the
basketball
team and working
part-time.
5. He's not living at
home. (Not that we don't love having him with us...but we're proud
he's making
his own way in the
world.)
6. He likes hanging out
with us. (He visits us or meets us for dinner about once a week.)
7. He's thoughtful.
(After the shooting in Kalamazoo, he sent us a text at 1 a.m. just to
let us know he
was home safe and
sound. He texts and calls to check in with us while he's on
vacation.)
8. He's polite.
9. He's appreciative.
(He thanks us profusely for any meal we buy or make when he visits.)
10. He has a sense of
humor. (Mostly, it's Matt's dry sense of humor, but he still makes
me laugh.)
11. He's open to trying new
things. (Electric Forest, for example. It's a multiple-day outdoor
music
event...without
showers. Yuck.)
12. He's respectful.
13. He values our liberal
opinions...and agrees with them.
14. He's not passive. (He
thought he should be paid more at work, so he found a new employer
that
agreed.)
15. He's smart.
16. He manages his own
life...himself. (He pays his own bills. He makes his own
appointments. He
does his own cooking,
cleaning, and laundry.)
17. He purchased his own
car...himself.
18. He has goals in
life...and a drive to achieve them. (He wants to own a home in a
few years...and get a
dog or two. I'm looking forward to giving decorating advice.)
19. He lives by a budget.
(He has a spreadsheet for his life plan...and he made one for his
girlfriend.)
20. He makes good choices.
21. He treats women with
respect. (He
treats them like the
goddesses they are.)
22. He doesn't have a false
sense of entitlement. (He works for what he wants.)
23. He can sleep anywhere.
(He was sleeping eleven hours straight when he was only six weeks
old.
He would fall asleep
in the car after fifteen minutes...and he still does to this day.)
24. He's beautiful...inside
and out. (He has a kind, caring, and compassionate soul. He also
has
gorgeous hazel eyes
and beautiful hair with loose curls. I may be the only mom in the
world who
used to beg her son
to grow his hair out.)
Honestly, raising Keaton was
a breeze. He was the easiest baby, toddler, and teenager in the world! He
never cried. (Well, maybe only ten times.) Seriously. He never
even cried when he was born. He covered his eyes and went back to
sleep. Then he pretty much slept for the next six months. He used
to sleep so much that I talked to his pediatrician about narcolepsy
or some other sleep disorder every month at his check-up. His
pediatrician used to just laugh at me and tell me how lucky I was.
Yes I was...and still am!
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| Just born: I don't think he liked having his nap interrupted. |
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| Twelve hours later...and he was still sleeping. Nobody could wake him up for his hospital birth photo. Not us. Not the nurses. Not the photographer. |
