When Sean got up for school on October 2nd, I told him that it was T-30. He didn’t know what that meant. So, as an explanation, I played him this song:
It COMPLETELY blows my mind that my baby is going to be 17! It blows my mind that 17 years ago, I was entering the last month of my only pregnancy. Sean always makes fun of me that when my birthday comes around, I celebrate for the whole month. I told him that we can celebrate for two months for his 17th birthday!
As it has turned out, lately, Sean has not gotten me out of bed and I go back to sleep when he goes off to school because I’m not sleeping very well through the night. Before he leaves, he comes to tell me he’s leaving and often times he will kiss me on my forehead. I will grab my phone and play this song that I downloaded on Apple Music! I also will play this song when he gets home from school too!
Since I’ve been doing it for a week now, Sean will roll his eyes A little, smile, and will dance a little to this song because he sees how excited I am. The other day, I only played it once and I told him that that fact kind of bummed me out. He said it was OK and I told him that this was the last month of my pregnancy. He asked me if I, “Really was going to make this about me?”
I told him that it was because I birthed him and have the scars to prove it and I grew him so, yes it is about me too!
Since I have played him the song so far about 20 times, he smiles when I know all the words and I will tell him about when my friend turned 17. I drove her to school and the morning of her birthday, I drove past her house to get to school so Mr. Flint could let me in early and I decorated her locker before I drove back to pick her up. When she got into the car, I played ABBA for her too!
It wasn’t really T -30 anyway because there’s 31 days in October but he got that his birthday was a month away! Tomato, tamahto. He will be 17 soon and until that day, I will play him ABBA every single day!