[tri-med] Re: Alex update

Hi Michelle my friend :o)
As always Our wise and worldy Jocelyn captures just the right words!
However...having said that...Nicholas is now 13 and coming up faster than
I'd like on that magical age of 16 and it scares me spitless and he's not
even a trier!!!! I can't even fathom if it were Devon...heck I'm scared for
him stepping off the sidewalk at school and falling...I'm scared if he
sleeps later one morning....which by the way is what we WANT him to do...but
still on occasion when he does I'm convinced that I'll go in to find him
gone to heaven :o(  So you see...while there IS an amazing amount of pride
and AWE I feel for you and Alex at his having accomplished what I would
consider the ummmmmmm.....unaccomplishable??? Is that a word?....I can also
definitely relate to your sky high level of fear!!!! In closing....I'd like
to say HATS OFF TO ALEX and WOOHOOO!!!! And to you Michelle...hats off to
you as well and to Jim too...but mostly reassuring hugs to you
Michelle....everytime those fearful tears come...feel my arms around you
squeezing you ever so gently telling you Alex is wrapped tightly in God's
arms and he is ok....he's just....becoming a man....
Love,
Penny...loving and devoted wife to Joe, the best husband in the world...mom
to Nick (13 yrs old...lover of Yu Gi Oh, RollerCoasters, Chocolate Icecream
with Ovaltine sprinkles), Devon (8 1/2 yrs...lover of Barney, Blue, Bear in
the Big Blue House, Elmo, Stuart Little, and food in general...Full trisomy
13 w/balanced translocation 5 and 13) , and Trooper the Wonder Dog...our 6
or 7 year old male yellow lab adopted from FL Lab Rescue 12/13/02 :o)
Web Pages to come soon...


Original Message ----- 
From: "Jocelyn Knowd" <jknowd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tri-med] Re: Alex update


> At 02:10 PM 25/06/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >Today, June 25, Alex--weighing in at 101 pounds and 4'10" tall at 17 yrs
> >and 24 days of age-- received his DRIVERS LICENSE.
>
> Well done Alex! They must have thought him reasonably competent or they
> wouldn't have issued it.
>
>
> >  I honestly don't know if this is a good thing or not.
> >
> >
> >  Apparently I make Alex nervous, edgy and upset  so maybe I don't get
the
> > 'good driver' benefit that Jim does.
>
> Our eldest grand daughter came home one afternoon's driving lesson with
her
> Mum, and hrruummpphheed up the stairs saying "I'm sticking with Dad for
> driving lessons from now on". I have sympathies on the Mum's side however,
> as I once had to pull on the handbrake, when we were heading for the
fence,
> after my saying, with increasing crescendo, slow, slow SLOW DOWN SLOW DOWN
> ahhhhh, that's with her mother I mean, not grand daughter, so the saying
> what goes around comes around is so true.
>
>
> >  I heard sirens a bit ago and it made me want to cry. He just called
> > (took my cell phone) and said he was stopping at the high school soccer
> > field to practice for a bit. He's done with the other errands. And still
> > alive.
> Well that will happen with the regular kids also.
>
>
> >HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   AAARRRGGGGHHHHH.    I'm the glass half empty and
> >Jim's the glass half full--if it had been my choice Alex wouldn't have
his
> >license right now---this is his Dad's doing.
>
> You'll get used to it. It's like when we first looked after our Triers,
and
> feared they would die. After a while, you just can't continue to function
> effectively if you retain that level of fear, and you take a few steps
back
> and DETACH.
>
>
> >  I tend to underestimate Alex and I really, really, really hope this is
> > the case.  Other parents, of NON-triers, that I've talked with have
> > fears/concerns about their teenaged drivers.....the same ones I have.
>
> So true!
> But I feel a touch of pride from the other side of the globe, that a trier
> has his drivers licence.
>
> >Big hugs Michelle, may you gain your serenity soon.
>
> Jocelyn, wife to Frank, mother to Ian, Gillian & Susan.
> Nanna to Carly 17, Mathew 15, Ashleigh 14, Alex 12, & Tess 7 years (T18)
> Living in New South Wales, Australia
>
>
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