Aww Chase…how do I even articulate what happened to you
this year??You grew up my boy!!! You did it. You are unrecognizable from the
inside since a year ago..On the outside still some similarities and a lot of differences
too.
And it has been and is such an honour to watch this all
happen.
Our baby. Our eldest. The kid we make all our mistakes on
and experience all our first teenage triumphs on.
For the first time very Chase spends his birthday away
from us in the evening. First time ever he will not come to the New Year’s party
we go to every year with our gang of BFF’s. He opted out. And you know what he
will do for New Year and his bday? He will go out to dinner with his girlfriend
and then was invited to hang at her house for New Year’s even with her family
and then spend the night there!!! OMG! Her mom and I said yes as long as she
and I got to text about it and she assured me where he would sleep is a “safe
distance” from her daughter’s roomJ
Love this lady alreadyJ
Chase woke up at the cottage to birthday basket and a
little hunt for his treats with loonies (which we capped off at 16 as the denatal
association will put is in jail if we give more than 16 treats. We still gave
17 in loonies though. We had breakfast out at Pizza Pizza as a family and Chase
did his yearly bday tradition with his dad of riding the 4 by 4 to the village
and for the second year in a row he of course was the driver with his dad on
the back.
A stop at the fave clothing on the agenda where the kids can cash in on
their coupon for a piece of clothing from Xmas present and off to our (separate)
new year’s plans. A little sadly. And a little secretly proud of our son. Part
of growing up is doing your own thing and he sure is doing it. Mixed emotions
and bittersweet.
This year for Chase?? Won most improved grades point average
in Sec 5 out of 10 classes of 38 students, becoming a science /math guy in lots
of ways which is still bloody unbelievable for someone who was almost failing math
4 yrs. ago and is now in the advanced advanced stream and holding his own, he
has his first job (whole other post about this) not making too much money but
already has a big gang of other ski monitors at the hill and I bet he will have
the time of his life this winter (making no money!!!)..first real girlfriend
for about 5 months now, a super nice gang of guy friends at school that he
spends time with regular and still one of the sweetest most loving affectionate
teens we know (with an occasional/often bad temper and bad attitude (sound a
lot like his mommy!!) He has definitely introduced us to all the teenage stuff
this year and initiated us-but in a very controlled way in fact. He is a good
good teen in general and if our other two can be this good ;then teens are a
piece of cake (with some occasional/often days that make you want to kill
yourself as a parent)
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| Les Boys. So close to his Dad and brother:))I never imagined my sons would have as close a relationship as they do |
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| I often have to force him to do stuff (and then he has fun).Tthis time was forced snowshoeing through the beautiful forest |
I will never stop worrying about this boy and never ever
stop adoring him. He is truly a wonderful person and a pride and joy and I am
so very happy to share with him the close relationship that we do. We are so
very proud of who he is and what he is becoming.
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| Halloween Penguins (there were 25 of them!!!) . This is his BFF (my adopted son) Matthieu who he met in kindergarten |
It is a true pleasure to raise Chase.
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| One year from 18 yrs old-a fully legal adult!!!!!!!! |
