Son Dan will be 50 on Friday the 13th of December. He was also born on a Friday the 13th, in 1974.
“I told you, a boy.”
“What do boys play with?” I’d grown up with one sister and several girl cousins.
A baby son, in Colorado. He was the only grandchild on either side, so there were soon heart tugs to return to Iowa, when we did when he was two years old.
The next couple of decades were filled with “adventures,” answering his notes to the Tooth Fairy, homemade Halloween costumes (Bilbo, Gandalf, Darth) volunteering for whatever he was involved in: school, AWANA at church, Cub Scouts (yes, a Den Mom), driving him to piano lessons and Boy Scouts, the first Star Wars movies and taekwondo, and to work at Target (until he got his license).
We hadn’t figured on parenting an only child, but I lost the next two pregnancies, so we are especially thankful for Dan! He and his wife Renee have a seven-year-old daughter, Kate. He works as a CPA (with a law degree) in the Twin Cities.
What did boys play with, at least before Pac-Man? Dan’s favorite was Crossbows and Catapults.
