This past
Sunday we moved our last boy to college!
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| CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES A MUST, WITHOUT COCONUT PLEASE!!!! |
~Garrison Lee Shaw~
Sam
Houston State University,
Criminology (I stand corrected, most of the time!)
Criminal Justice Major, ROTC & Bearcat Marching Band
And much to mom’s dismay, soon to join the Army National Guard with a heart set on
becoming an Army Ranger after college;
no small feat, please pray!
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| GARRISON AND ST. PHILIP (my other boy!) |
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| YES I LOOK TIRED....AND HE LOOKS READY, please read on!!!! |
After 33 years
of raising boys, my first born in 1981 and my last in 1996,
I’m freeeeee ~ but
all I have done for the last three days….is sit in my work space, think, worry
and cry in my cinnamon toast…
Someone please kick me
in the seat of my pjs!
With three guys
happily launched into their futures and doing well, all who made it through
their formative years without tragic incidents or life changing lapses in judgment,
I consider myself blessed beyond measure!
God is so good!!!
I keep telling
myself, it is time to stop worrying, rearrange my empty nest and start kicking
things up and around a bit. But I’m a
worrier by genetics, thanks Mom....
You see, I left
Garrison all by himself
(band members checked in a week early)
…On the 4th
floor of an antiquated dorm in a miniscule room
(my Lord, it is
smaller than the one I stayed in at Southwest Texas in 1975)
...Sleeping on a
bunk/loft bed
(with NO rail, what on earth are they thinking with all those
college kids who know no limits?)
...
Where no one will know if he falls off in his
sleep, hits his head on the edge of the desk, lands on the concrete floor in
the middle of the night, no 911 call to be made!!!
This is the way
my mind works…..don't laugh~
So after 3
pretty much sleepless nights, texting each morning “just to check in” and
praying for an answer (2 out of three ain’t bad), I’m hanging up my worrying “genes”,
putting on my work pants (allbethem a bit cinnamon toast tight), rearranging
my work space and looking forward to some creative escaping!
So come along
with me as I find my new “sonsgone” self!
I’ve got a lot of new ideas, GraceReclaimed vignette of the week,
GraceReclaimed Trunk Show Return and a bit of client work inbetwixed!
It’s about time
I got to it!!!!
Happy Back to
School, No More Cinnamon Toast or Excuses and….My Grace Reclaimed!
Love to you who
care, b
p.s. to my garrison....don't forget where HOME is!
