I woke up at 4 a.m. really missing Jeremy and Melissa to the point that I couldn't sleep and had to get out of bed. This was probably due to the news that the baby has arrived and I just wanted so bad to hold him even if it was just for a second. Funny how you can love a little creature so much when you are just an Aunt.
What a gift we are to each other. What a gift this little boy is to our family. I remember like it was yesterday Jeremy and Melissa's wedding. I remember so well when they were dating as teenagers. I remember Jeremy just before he left on his mission, and I wrote this to Melissa in a letter last Christmas, that my sweetest memory of them was when Melissa choreographed a dance in her high School dance company that she performed with her company on stage. We had the privleage of of going to watch her performance and what I remember the most about that was the look on Jeremy's face-who, as I recall was just day's away from leaving on his mission. His eyes spoke a million words as he watched Melissa dance. Somewhere in that solemn expression I saw the love he felt for her, a yearning to stay close, the obligation of his calling knowing he had to leave, and a hope for their future. Truly I have never seen such an expression of pure love mixed with all the anxiety of what lay ahead. Jeremy won't say he was thinking any of this-at least not in public. But I was there and that expression is forever imprinted in my brain because I remember how it made me feel about my brother. I loved him more because I witnessed this. I have never felt more tender toward him. I will never forget it.
The song Melissa danced to that night was the song played at their wedding breakfast when she recreated that dance and performed it for him again. This became their love song, and I can't listen to it without being reminded of them. This is the song I have downloaded for the playlist, John Denver's "for you".
All these years have passed since that first dance and the expression it created on Jeremy's face. I can only imagine how Jeremy would be looking at Melissa today, the mother of his three beautiful children. There is probably no way anyone could describe the love behind that kind of expression.
okay, so I don't have a good picture of the crazy Halloween costumes he wore...but, I have a great memory!! one year on Halloween, I was about 16 or 17. Dad got all dressed up in a black cape with a hood. put on a mask, and went and sat on the front porch for hours. Just sitting very still. As the night progressed , a little boy came up to the house to trick or treat, and as recall dad stood up or moved , maybe even touched the boy on his shoulder. That little boy is probably still running screaming...lol! Dad was so funny, and he LOVED Halloween. He really knew how to party!! (Ange)
I woke up at 4 a.m. really missing Jeremy and Melissa to the point that I couldn't sleep and had to get out of bed. This was probably due to the news that the baby has arrived and I just wanted so bad to hold him even if it was just for a second. Funny how you can love a little creature so much when you are just an Aunt.
It has been almost a year since Trent and Lecil lost their newborn baby to a rare birth defect. I have just been thinking about them today in light of the birth of our newest family member, Jeremy and Melissa's baby boy who was born last night in North Carolina. I hope Trent and Lecil know that we are thinking about them and praying for them still and hoping their hearts will be comforted continually. "and God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and their shall be no more death..." We love you.
