34 years ago today...7:29 CST (revised)

 
ok...so i repost this every year....haley is my beautiful daughter, haley's 34th birthday...today we are heading out for some much mother daughter time. we usually are surrounded by her children...my bugs, which is heavenly...but, today we are going to catch up on this special day....here is a photo of haley and i that i haven't ever posted....i was seventeen....and the birth of haley still remains one of the most treasured days of my life...she was, is and always will be my precious little girl....no amount of years that go by....some things never change! i love you haley....see you at 10 am!!!!

below is the post from a few years ago now!!!...so add a one more wonder-filled year to this, and we have another year to celebrate my sweet daughter, haley's birth! now 34 amazing years ago! better run...i am on my way to catch a flight to go and celebrate with my darling family in texas!  (i'm here this year!!!)

oh my!!!...today is a real milestone...for me and my haley...she turns 30 @ 7:29am this morning...august 25, 1976...yep our bicentennial baby...i was so glad she came on this particular day...because senior pictures were taken this day...and there was no way i wanted to get my senior pictures done being huge and pregnant!!!! my dear high school counselor, jw...kept telling me not to worry about it...it will be from the bust up...well, my bust was big in the first place...and when i am pregnant...let's just say dairy queen!!!! my dear haley shawn...she is my beautiful first born...it is hard to believe this. I was so young...and brave! she is now an amazing mother of two little girls...kayla & kassidy...she is expecting a little boy in december...kolton sean...we all can't wait! (he's here now! and he is the cutest little boy you have ever laid your eyes upon!) she is the sweetest big sister...and a wonderful daughter...she never meets a stranger...and she has the knack of making anyone feel special. it used to drive my momma crazy when i would pack her up when she was just 8 months old and head to the beach...galveston texas to be exact!...love that place...but, my momma is the biggest worry wart EVER...she would never say "have a good time"...it was always...yelling out the door...ann twynette!...pronounced like wynette...as in tammy...with the emphasis on the twy...long I... "pleeeease, don't let that baby get burned"...like i was young and dumb! well i was only a senior in high school...but i do have the most darling pictures of her in her little white eyelet bonnet, and her little yellow bikini...i'd plop her up there in her little round walker...she'd be as happy as a clam right there under a canopy that we (my best girlfriend...barb & i) made with a sheet between two cars...with the edges of the sheets rolled up in the windows...we were so proud...her long skinny toes digging in the sand and her little rosy cheeks, not burned...just right...til this very day she still is a beach baby through and through! now she takes her little girls to the same beaches that i took her...and i have to admit...i do tell her to be sure and put sunblock on them!...we are our mothers! that's another can of worms to be opened at a later date! after my senior year i went away to college...my parents were heartbroken. haley and i were really on our own...in a new town...logan utah...yet another story! living in the married college apartments...even though i wasn't married...but what were they to do with me & haley? that was another experience that may or may not get written about here on these pages...let's just say that homesickness overtook me and back to texas we went...where has the time gone?...i remember my mom saying that...and i thought my gosh mom...what the hell do you mean by that?...back then, time crawled...now, i know exactly what she meant...funny how that works! i remember not too many years ago when the first of our kids started to leave the house and off to college or out to make their own paths...i called my momma in tears...and asked her "why didn't you tell me i was going to feel like this?"...she said there really isn't anything you can do to prepare for it anyway...and she was right!...oh nina...i am feeling a little blue right about now...let's not be sad....i will be right back...it's Miller time...ok...i'm back...ahhh, now that hits the spot...dan put a "brewskie" in the freezer for me and it's icy cold...the kind you really want after you finish mowing the yard! i will close with this one last thing about my haley that was so dear to me...and something that will stay with me forever...she called me after she had gotten home from the hospital with kayla, her oldest...(yet another story...i was in the delivery room with her with both little bugs!...oh my...if i could've done it for her...i would've...but what a miracle to see your granddaughters coming into this amazing life!) and said "momma, i had no idea you loved me this much!" love is a such a sweet thing...but once you become a mother...so many things make more sense about your very own mother...and even though i thought i showed her all the love i could...it wasn't until she felt that little girl in her arms that she really understood my love for her...i love my sweet haley...now it is 12:06...now 1:17am...now 1:46...nite nite...sleep tight...don't let the bedbugs bite!!!!see you in the am...(i have always said those exact word when tucking my kids in for the night)...xoxo...annie

ps....since this was a post from last year...when i was writing this, i thought that my newfound friend nina was the only one reading this. i laugh now as i repost this...the things i said in the beginning of this blog adventure! oh, my!

Comments

[nina]

still here, after so many years....still loving you. my god, you were such a young mama - and still are!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

[Mary LaCaze]

Oh Annie...I'm sitting here just boo-hoo-ing like a big baby! Where have all those years gone? I hope you and Haley are having a wonderful time...making precious memories. Love you both.