......I became a mom for the first time as we welcomed Jordan Trey...it was a very hard and long labor and so began our life with our first born. He has broken us in well!!! It is SO hard to believe that we have a child this old, we certianly do not feel like 17 years have gone by and as I look at Hudson, just three, I know I will be saying this about him in just a few short years.
Jordan has taught me more about myself and life than probably anyone I know. I don't know if it because he our first born, which we tend to be oh, so hard on or if it his "intense" personality but when you talk about "Iron sharpens Iron'...that would be our son. He has incredible descernment, is very black and white and has a deep sense of what is just. It has been hard to let him go some this year and I don't think I was ever prepared for the changes that happen in a mom/son relationship as they sit in that space between boyhood and manhood. Thankfully I have a husband who knows what is like to be a boy/man and can gently remind me "Don't expect him to respond like a girl/woman would....he isn't made that way".
Jordan wrote some things about himself in a recent project for school and I think I learned as much about my son in his writing than I have in 17 years of parenting him. His faith shapes who he is, he is much harder on himself than he lets on, he has a deep desire to be respected and one of his heroes is someone with a disability, to name just a few things.
Of all the kids I have been most proud of Jordan in our move to MN. We gave him the option of staying at home with dad as what high school kid wants to change schools mid-year? He looked at it as a great opportunity and has had an awesome semester. He has made great friends and today those friends have taken him for the day with lots of suprises in store. How cool is that for a bunch of highschool boys? Jordan has loved his time here so well he is reluctant to go home and we have decided to let him stay until soccer season starts in early August, another, "letting go" moment. Tomorrow night we will be making dinner for his buddies so pictures will have to wait until then.
We love you Jordan and wouldn't want you any other way!
6 comments:
I'm crying! We so need each other right now :) LOL
Brings tears to my eyes. I always wonder how those son/mom relationships work as they grow. What a wonderful person Jordan must be to our world.
Sounds like a neat kiddo! I can't wait to meet him and the girls someday. Of course, coming from great parents like you and Mark, what else could he possible be but a super kid! They do grow up fast, don't they! Glad it's going so well!
Love you!
Happy Birthday Jordan! 17?!?! Wow!
Sharon, I hope you are doing well! Miss you!
Jennifer
Happy Birthday Jordan!
Hang in there mom!
Time does go by so fast and I too am finding it hard to let go. My oldest son recently turned 15 and your right, it is hard when the mother/son relationship begins changing and they become so independent. One day they are little boys and the next day young men. It sounds like God is shaping Jordan into a man after His own heart. I know you are proud of him.
Love,
Melinda
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