09 MarI Like You, Dad

March 16, 1992

Dear Cory,

You are trying so hard to be a “big boy” now. This morning you put on your Sunday clothes all by yourself without me or Mom knowing. You did a very good job too. Your suit coat was buttoned up wrong and your collars were all skiddywompus but other than that you looked good.

We walked to church today. The weather was so beautiful. You walked beside me and hung on to the bag I was carrying. You said, “I like you Dad.”

“I like you too,” I answered.

“Because I’m big boy,” you said.

“I loved you just as much when you were a little boy,” I said. “And I’ll love just as much when you are even older.”

It’s true. He is grown and married. I love him every bit as much.

As long as you are breathing life if flowing on. When I reach the age where kids and even adults look at me and think nothing more than “old person” I still want to be able to remember what happened during that blink that was my life. Writing down those moments in-between events is my way of doing that.

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