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\"\"<\/a>Shel Silverstein wrote in The Giving Tree<\/em>, “And she loved a boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself.”<\/p>\n

My “boy” just turned thirty a couple months ago and a little over a week ago, he asked the love of his life, beyond me of course, to marry him.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard it said that \u00a0“a son is a son ’til he takes a wife; a daughter is a daughter the rest of her life.” But in our case, I have high hopes that my son, at least occasionally, will choose his mama for a Chrismas or two and maybe a vacation once every few years.<\/p>\n

You see, we have been through a lot together, my boy and me. \u00a0Since he was a senior in high school he has had six or so major surgeries. Two of them day-long brain resections, a neurosurgeon’s fancy word for brain surgery. (https:\/\/askmrsmom.com\/?p=397) \u00a0He has survived treatment for\u00a0two cancers, has been declared cured of one and continues to be monitored for the other.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of this cancer journey, a road we are forced on and never take by choice, I let my mind go to the worst case scenerio at every test result, path report and doctor’s visit. \u00a0But as time passed and he still woke up smiling, I learned to lean into every moment we had together, all of us as a family. And slowly I went from living one day at a time to one step at a time and finally one breath at a time.<\/p>\n

Nothing like a healthy awareness of death to make living all that more precious.<\/p>\n

So this news that we are adding another member to our family is joyous on so many levels. My positive, follow-me-I-am-invincible son has led me to yet another happy place. \u00a0He has lived and loved and hoped and dreamed. And more than a decade after his first diagnosis, he is healthy and getting married.<\/p>\n

What’s more, this beautiful woman he has chosen to spend the rest of his life with is someone I can pass my baton to with confidence. And know she will pick it up with a heart full of love and hope for all their tomorrows.<\/p>\n

What more could an old tree stump ask for?<\/p>\n

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