Long ago. The struggle to keep him alive...the struggles to keep each of them alive...the three of them....began long ago. Then came the struggles to manage each of their medical, behavioral and learning special needs.
It seems along the way of keeping them alive and safe and managing their needs at any given moment, I forgot. I forgot that they just might grow up, healthy and strong. They did. Now I need to tell them so many things...explain so much. It is difficult to fathom that they had lives before me...only briefly, but they had hard lives before me...their mom. Yet they are a part of me and always have been.
Thank God...they have grown strong and healthy and will one day...in the blink of an eye...be men. There are new adventures awaiting our family as the boys grow up. I am afraid...and excited...and happy.
These thoughts played through my mind when I snapped this photo of Wil...my baby...soon to be ten years old.
Photo as shot, no cropping. Editing in Photoshop Elements 5, curves, sharpening. Click to enlarge.
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