30th Birthday on Thanksgiving Day!

My son is going to be 30 on Thanksgiving Day. Can that be so? I can't possibly have a 30-year-old son!

Yes, it is so and I must face the fact that time moves forward.... it doesn't stop and wait for me to have a break, a moment of pause, a time to just take a break.... even while I am sleeping time is moving forward and everyone around me is getting older, including me!

30 years ago, when I held my little baby boy in my arms I had all the aspirations a new Mother has.... I just knew my son was going to be President of the United State one day! Together, through the years we've been through Little League Baseball (All-Star Pitcher!), Karate (made it to brown belt), Art Classes (that fizzled out fast), Piano Lessons (he can play "The Entertainer"), Trumpet Lessons (played in band from middle school through high school then sold the trumpet and hasn't played since)..... and then there was the time at 17 when he came to us and wanted to join the Marines! (Not that there is anything wrong with the Marines, but I just wasn't quite ready for that yet!)

Through the years he found his passion... DRUMS! After high school he tried a semester of Junior College and was miserable. He wanted to go to the Musician's Institute in Hollywood to study percussion, so we agreed and he excelled!

30 years later I am blessed to have a son who is a Hard Rock Drummer ... I would have never guessed that one! I have certainly been stretched and my mind has been opened up to a world I knew nothing about! But, I wouldn't change him or his passion! A Mother's love is constant and unconditional. Happy 30th Birthday to Wes, my son on Thanksgiving Day! Rock On!