(Angela)
“Happy Birthday to you,” sang Lou and I to a half-asleep Charles. My baby was turning 5 today and I didn't know how to feel. He was growing up so fast. It felt like it was just yesterday that I was crying my eyes out in the ultrasound room as I listened to his heartbeat through the monitor.
“Happy Birthday to you sweetheart,” I said as I hugged Charles with tears dropping from my eyes.
“Don’t tell me you’re crying Ange,” Lou said in a whine.
“He’s growing up so fast, I can’t help it,”
She rolled her eyes at me. “You do this every birthday,”
Well, that was true. Every 14th of May in the last 5 years always met me with mixed emotions. My mind flashed back to when I went into labor five years ago. I had been in labor for close to 12 hours and I had become exhausted.
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