Happy Birthday Oldest
8/17 is a special day at our house.
Oldest's birth was high drama (as many first babies are), he had a charmed life (alone with us for six years) and always walked his own road, for better or worse.
What's Oldest up to now?
As a licensed tattoo artist in the city, he works for a family owned shop where the owners adore him.
I went to visit him one day a few weeks ago...
Owner of the Shop: Oh! Mrs! Your son is the most wonderful employee! A genius, really!
me: Well, I don't know about genius.
OoTS: Oh, no, ma'am, this fellow, this fellow IS a genius. When someone walks into the shop wanting a tattoo but unsure of what they want and they leave with a beautiful big piece of artwork on their back, well, that is GENIUS.
me: ....
He works long hours and six days a week and could not be happier.
Last night he took someone to dinner and a movie.
It is difficult to describe how these are great developments, but they are.
So, today - tonight, actually, a toast to Oldest.
This weekend he's throwing himself a huge barbecue at the beach.
Lucky at last.
Oldest's birth was high drama (as many first babies are), he had a charmed life (alone with us for six years) and always walked his own road, for better or worse.
What's Oldest up to now?
As a licensed tattoo artist in the city, he works for a family owned shop where the owners adore him.
I went to visit him one day a few weeks ago...
Owner of the Shop: Oh! Mrs! Your son is the most wonderful employee! A genius, really!
me: Well, I don't know about genius.
OoTS: Oh, no, ma'am, this fellow, this fellow IS a genius. When someone walks into the shop wanting a tattoo but unsure of what they want and they leave with a beautiful big piece of artwork on their back, well, that is GENIUS.
me: ....
He works long hours and six days a week and could not be happier.
Last night he took someone to dinner and a movie.
It is difficult to describe how these are great developments, but they are.
So, today - tonight, actually, a toast to Oldest.
This weekend he's throwing himself a huge barbecue at the beach.
Lucky at last.
Comments
Buon compleanno.
happy birthday to oldest.
Have fun celebrating, you genius you!
jbhat
jbhat
It gives you such a sense of peace when your kids are happy.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Happy Birthday!
Happy, Happy Birthday!
May you have a year of joy!
Laura
Erin H