A Message to my Sons-In-Law

This week I get to have another birthday.

As I write this on Sunday morning (a few days ago) I was thinking about how I was when I was your age.

I now refer to my 20’s and early 30’s as “a lifetime ago”, because you are now in that age range.

Jon, you were the first to marry one of my daughters and there is a picture that I’ve featured with this story that says it all.

I laugh when I see it these days, but it appears that I was giving you the evil eye.  It was just the sun.  I recall being very happy that day.

But the look on my face and Tiffany’s face at that second is priceless.

Also in that picture is my oldest daughter, Rachael.  She brought a guy she had just recently met to her sister’s wedding that day and 5 years later Brandon became my 2nd son-in-law.  That was just over two years ago and a couple of months after Rachael married Brandon, we had another wedding.

The last of my sons-in-law is Jeff who wed my step-daughter Abby.  Each of these couples have become parents and are going through the multiple changes that happen when you’re at that stage of life.

I know.  I’ve been there.

Your own job changes.

Going from a dual income to single income.

Moving.

Watching your girlfriend transform before your eyes as she becomes your wife and then mother to your children.

Watching from my chair, I am amazed at the transformations these women have made and I recall when they were little girls.

I am protective of Rachael, Tiffany and Abby, but you know what?

I am also blessed because I see each of them has married a man that loves them just as much as I do.

Jon, Brandon, and Jeff… Thank you for being the men that you are.  Each uniquely qualified to be my daughters’ husbands and Dads to my grandchildren.  I wish the very best for you.  I pray for you and your families.  And I am here for you too.