Happy Birthday Nathan!!!!

Once in a lifetime you meet a really good friend. Well I must say that I have been blessed the last two years to meet several good friends!

Mrs Mac is one of these friends and she has been very unselfish with sharing her precious son Nathan who's name means "Gift from God" to me and all of her other blog buddies.

Well, today is a special day for the Gift. It is his birthday and he is twelve years old and it is the first day of Spring! How lucky could one little boy be?

He has his two buds in this card with him, his beloved Miss Lucy and his nephew, Jacob.

Now the baby behaved very well when I took him off of his Gramma's blog and brought him to Canada for a photo shoot but that Dawg!!!..Oh my!.. When I tried to haul her away she struggled so hard that she messed up Nathan's birthday card with her paws!

And how and ever she got green paint on her paws,I will never know! I have no time to be fixing that card, so the prints will just have to stay!

Now Nathan is so special to his family that Mrs. Mac has created his own post site on her blog,http://scentedgeranium.blogspot.com/ and these heartwarming posts are surely worth the read.

To whet your appetite, I am copying and pasting the titles of these posts.

Nathan's Posts
100 MPH Haircut
A Family Christmas Outing
A Great Affinity For Love
Back To School
Back To School Night
Birthday Boy
Black-Out Shades
Boy's Day Out
Eyes OK
Faded Photographs & Memories ... My Babies
Feeling Better
Finger Lickin Good
First School "Casualty"
Happy Smile
He Read ... I Wept
I Ditched Church
In The Dark? A One Eyed Mother
Just One More Kiss
Kickin N Screamin
My Two Favorite Boys
Nathan's College Adventures
Oh, BTW, I'm Just A Housewife
Potty Training 101
Simple Words
Small Talk
Special Needs Child Aboard
Such Promise
Sunshine Smile & Good Kisses
Take A Number
The Breakfast Thief
The Dentist Visit
This And That
What If

Now these are all so good that I had a difficult time trying to pick out just one of my favourites to copy here but I finally managed to and here it is...

Ten years ago today our family life changed drastically. You see I gave birth to a little boy with Down syndrome and a myriad of other complications. For past birthdays I used to always remember the day before his birth ... doing so reminded me of a "normal" life without all the issues associated with caring for someone with so many medical/mental/physical problems. Today, I've changed and try to look forward ... not back. Life is "normal" now ... in a different, better way. My idea of "normal" has been upgraded to include a whole new set of thoughts. I can't imagine life without my little "angel" ... he adds a new dimension to life. His given name means "strength from God" ...Happy birthday little man!
Posted by Mrs. Mac at 11:25 AM Monday March 20 2006

Happy Birthday Nathan!! You are everybody's treasure!