A birthday celebration (a few days late)

 My baby is 15 now. 

  Old enough to get his drivers permit in a few days. Old enough to be almost as tall as his dad and have a voice that is almost as deep as his dad’s. He has been taller than I am for several years now. Both my young men have been protective of me always, but my younger one, my Zion, has had a lot of responsibility for me now that his older brother has a job and college classes. He follows through. I want you, anyone reading this, to know how amazing he has been. My children have matured early, with a diabetic, epileptic mother, and they have done a wonderful job. 

 The greatest early Christmas present I ever received!

There are some adorable blogs about him in the years that I was writing often. 

2007, 2 days before his 2nd birthday and barely surviving. 

2008, I wasn’t very good at arranging a blog yet, but Zion was adorable. 

2009, some pictures.

2011, the story linked to in the center of this one still makes me cry every time. 

 He protests against pictures most of the time right now, and took time to deliberately avoid the camera for gift time, but this gift was a surprise and that threw him off enough for me to get a picture of him actually smiling. :) 

Re-using those candles from some other birthday cakes. Poor kid- this mom never wastes and never throws away something that could be used again, lol. 

See what I mean about trying not to smile? 

But... 

I can get him to laugh!

 Take time to celebrate my friends. Remember that. Time flies and before you know it your baby is ready to drive!