Looking at your pictures hanging in my office
(one for every year of your first 11)
Oh how I miss the sweet little boy that you were!
Running hugs when you’d launch yourself into my arms
Hearing your happy shout of “Mommy!” when I’d pick you up at daycare
Hug fests when one of us felt lonely…
I thought those days would last forever;
I know I wanted them to! But alas, time as always has done its thing…
And now look at you! All of a sudden you’re a man!
25 with a sweet girlfriend, living and working 1500 miles away.
I cannot contain the love I feel for you
and how proud I am of you
they overflow with every beat of my heart
into every moment of every day.
My biggest hope in life is that you know
just how much I love you
and always will.
1/28/24
Karen McCaskey 