34! What?!?!?!
Can it be? Is it possible? How can we understand such things? One so recently born and yet so old! The acquisition of agedness in the twinkling of an eye?! By what power? With whose permission? I refuse to believe it! I refuse to allow it.
Shelley in nutshell (no pun intended):
Conceived on the west coast.
Born on the east coast.
Educated at various point in between.
Born again, by faith,
-----in the Philippines.
Graduated, from Faith,
-----also in the Philippines.
A one-man woman, after she met David. (Was he the 12th man?)
An Aggie by heritage.
An Aggie by choice.
An Aggie by marriage.
Dramatic by spirit.
A leader by giftedness.
Modest by choice
Singer of songs.
Lover of the lost and hopeless.
Married to a good man.
Mother of a good son.
Mother of another good son.
Mother to the son of another and the giver of hope to both.
Pride of her parents.
Guide of the unrighteous to change.
Guide of the righteous to change.
A blessing to all.
A 34th birthday on 10.24: a birthday of no special significance. Or maybe if we realize 10+24=34. And 71(the year of her birth) minus 3 (the number of men in her house) divided by two (the number of sons) equals 34 -- maybe it is significant after all. Or, maybe not!
Oh, I know, maybe if we realize that there is no other Shelley Anne who makes both her mother and her mother-in-law brag. Maybe if we point out that she makes her determined-not-to-be-proud dad proud. Maybe if we look at the gaze of admiration in her father-in-law's eye and hear the boasting about her of her husband. Maybe then we'll realize that any birthday, yea verily, any day in the life of this daughter of God is of special significance for she is a blessing to all.
We all failed. Your family and the world failed today to show the proper appreciation on this very significant day - your 34th birthday. Happy birthday! We love you.
Shelley in nutshell (no pun intended):
Conceived on the west coast.Born on the east coast.
Educated at various point in between.
Born again, by faith,
-----in the Philippines.
Graduated, from Faith,
-----also in the Philippines.
A one-man woman, after she met David. (Was he the 12th man?)
An Aggie by heritage.An Aggie by choice.
An Aggie by marriage.
Dramatic by spirit.
A leader by giftedness.
Modest by choice
Singer of songs.
Lover of the lost and hopeless.
Married to a good man.Mother of a good son.
Mother of another good son.
Mother to the son of another and the giver of hope to both.
Pride of her parents.
Guide of the unrighteous to change.
Guide of the righteous to change.
A blessing to all.
A 34th birthday on 10.24: a birthday of no special significance. Or maybe if we realize 10+24=34. And 71(the year of her birth) minus 3 (the number of men in her house) divided by two (the number of sons) equals 34 -- maybe it is significant after all. Or, maybe not!
Oh, I know, maybe if we realize that there is no other Shelley Anne who makes both her mother and her mother-in-law brag. Maybe if we point out that she makes her determined-not-to-be-proud dad proud. Maybe if we look at the gaze of admiration in her father-in-law's eye and hear the boasting about her of her husband. Maybe then we'll realize that any birthday, yea verily, any day in the life of this daughter of God is of special significance for she is a blessing to all.
We all failed. Your family and the world failed today to show the proper appreciation on this very significant day - your 34th birthday. Happy birthday! We love you.
posted by Ron and Marilyn @ 5:33 PM
4 Comments:
At 8:30 PM,
Anonymous said…
Well, it worked. You made me cry! :)
I love you tons! And miss you! It's not the same, not being with y'all to celebrate.
Thank you! For everything, for the blog and for being the greatest parents ever.
I love you both,
shell
At 5:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
Meg e-mailed me this morning and told me to read your blog. How sweet... and true. Shelley, happy birthday (belated). You are truly blessed among women.
love you
Donna
p.s. Marilyn, would you please take off those spam-comments. Yuk.
At 6:16 AM,
Ron and Marilyn said…
Hey Donna,
Those have been trashed. Thanks for pointing this out and thanks for reading the blog. Hey, you're up early! Ron did a great job, didn't he? We added the word verification to add a little spam-blocking, hopefully.
~m
At 8:00 AM,
Team Mexico said…
So sweet! But I would expect nothing less from my amazingly prolific father. (he even taught me some big words. aren't you impressed?) It sure is nice having not only the greatest parents ever, but the greatest big sister ever on top of all that. How in the world did you manage it all?
Love to everyone! I can't wait for heaven when we'll all live in the same place for eternity (either that or we'll be able to fly and visit each other whenever we want!)
Love,
Sara
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