Sunday, January 30, 2011

Birthday boy

It's my baby boy's 22nd birthday today. I'm in denial...seems like only last year he's a a punky first time drinker who oozed liquor when we picked him up for his birthday meal...oh wait, that was just last year after his big birthday extravaganza. His roomies call the party: Judapalooza. Or some such...

Really though. It does seem like just a couple years ago he was 13. And right before that he was 4. Man that kid had some good parties - he had a lot of boys in his class at St. Malachy School, the Catholic school in Creston. I think there were around 15 boys and 9 girls in his class. So at party time, he'd have a huge one.

We usually had the boys stay all night - which meant little sleep for any of us. Those guys had a great deal of energy! Of course we didn't help by filling them up with soda pop, pizza and cake. As Jud got older, he usually arranged large video game tourneys for his bday. Such fun...

Today we met Jud and Kara at Lone Star Steakhouse for lunch. They were only a little late. We like her more each time we are around her - she can hold her own against his..shi* um crap. We proceeded to Younkers to buy him a comforter and pillows to go with the sheets I got him.

We actually stopped at his man cave student apartment yesterday. Ugh. Big mistake. Boys have icky apartments. Avert eyes and nose. I didn't look in his room, but I'm sure new bedding will help.

The next year will be a huge one for my lil buddy. Graduation. First job (fingers crossed bigtime here). Will Kara be a part of that future? Who knows? She has a job lined up in Kansas City. I know he'd like to be someplace close to there...

Judson, the world is your oyster (yeah, I know, you prolly don't like oysters), nevertheless - go get 'em!

1 comment:

amy e. goldsmith said...

happy bday to juddy buddy! i hope he reads your blog about him.