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Pre-Birthday Time

Right about this time of year, I start freaking out. It's the "pre-birthday" time. Not my birthday (although my own years seem to be passing ohsofast ), but my son's birthday. Six, this year.  Six. This baby that we hoped for and prayed for and wept for. He came.  And he stayed. And he took our lives and shook them up and pushed them forward and took all the breath out of us. And so, as this time approaches each year and our discussions turn to cake and invitations and a couple of special gifts, my heart begins to beat at an incredibly rapid rate and I try and fit just a little bit more into the current age. More outings. More snuggling. More activities. More sitting and staring at him and squeezing him and begging him to please stop growing. I try and sit and listen more when he tells me about the ninja-ship-training station he's made with his Legos and I try harder to come up with creative answers to whether Lego Luke or Lego Obi Wan