Rant & Promise

>rant< When a Big 10 vs MAC game is more important to you than family, I truly feel sorry for you. When you choose to attend such an unimportant football game (as opposed to watching it on tv) rather than attend a major family event then I truly feel sorry for you. When your family comes together to celebrate the first year of a life that miraculously survived without brain damage and probably should not have survived at all and you miss it to watch a not so great Big 10 team play a really bad MAC team, then I feel truly sorry for you. Tomorrow I will wake up and not be angry, but I will pity you for not realizing that it is your family who you count on at times of need and that a football team doesn't care about you anymore than the other 106,200 people that will be in attendance that day. >/rant<

>promise< Dear Aiden. I promise that I will always be there for you and anyone else that you deem worthy to call family. I promise to teach you the things that are really important in life. I will teach you that family is an institution that was denied your ancestors and should be celebrated at every possible moment. I promise to teach you that how you treat people and the priorities you set in your life are two of the ways that people will judge and measure you as a man. This is a mother's promise to her son. >/promise<