Hey boy (lol),
Happy Heavenly Birthday!!!! You would be 17 today and I wish I could tell you this in person. I loved every day that I was lucky enough to spend with you for those 3 ½ years…. I’m so thankful to have had you in my life, even for a short time. I miss you.
I really miss these things:
Your laugh and your smile – every day you had a great attitude about life, while things were never very easy for you personally...
Our car rides with your repeatedly bad music!
Our trips to On the Run, where you knew exactly how to make my soda, and would always ask or beg for candy and other stuff, and most of the time I gave in!
Watching you grow from a goofy fun-loving kid with braces, to the beautiful teenager that I remember so well.
Going to all your soccer games – Loved every minute of watching you develop, compete like crazy, and have success at every step….
Traveling with you – I’ll never forget Orlando, Cancun, Florida, or the numerous soccer trips where it was just you and we’d have so much fun.
Working together, you complaining, then enjoying it anyway as I’d usually give you fun jobs.
Your constant quest to catch me doing something embarrassing on video…. And sometimes succeeding!
The silly selfies you took on my phone 😉
Sending me texts just because….
The way you yelled “Tommmm!” when I would try to embarrass you.
Doing TikTok’s together where I had no idea what I was doing.
Christmas – present opening, just being together and celebrating.
And the reason for this birthday card – Wanted to repay you for the B-Day, Father’s Day and the other cards you always wrote me. I loved them and still get them out often and read them. I will cherish them forever….
I love you forever Lydia!
Your favorite gurl…
Tom
P.S. – I hope they have bad music up there for you to play on repeat daily….
P.S.S. – I really hope you can hear me when I talk to you daily.