Happy Birthday Jaymie

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:37:51 +0000

Keeping with the tradition of me posting birthday wishes late, my oldest child Jaymie turned 27 this week. That makes me feel older than all the aches, pains and gray hairs combined. But that’s a good “old” feeling. She has always had the uncanny ability to make me feel old for no reason. Once I was driving her to school and the song “Da Da Da (I Don’t Love You You Don’t Love Me)” by Trio came on the radio. I think it was being used as part of an ad campaign at the time but I can’t exactly remember. So I said to her “You know, that song was the first 45 I ever bought.”

Without missing a beat, turning her head to look at me or even cracking a smile, she said “What’s that? One of those record things you’re always going on about?” She totally stopped me in my tracks, I took my eyes off the road and just said “Shut up.” That’s when the smile came out.

And as you can tell from the picture with my granddaughter Gabryale, Jaymie has a great smile.

Five Generational Picture

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:36:31 +0000

This is a picture of my grandmother, my granddaughter Gabryale, my daughter Jaymie, my mother and me. It was taken by my other daughter Jazmyn on Thanksgiving 2008. I have no idea why it was datestamped 6/16/2007.

This was the first time that Gabryale had met my mother and grandmother. At first she didn’t want to go to anyone but Jaymie (and begrudgingly to Jazmyn), but for some reason she wanted to go to my grandmother. After two minutes, she didn’t want to go anyone else.

My mother and grandmother had already been there for hours by the time the girls showed up and were ready to leave. My mother works midnights and while she had already took a nap on my couch, she wanted to go home and try to catch a few minutes before she had to get up again. However, I don’t think it worked out that way.

When my grandmother handed Gaby back to Jaymie, the baby started to cry and howl. Her reaction to being separated from her great-grandmother took everybody by surprise. The only other time that I had ever seen her that upset was when I was holding her and she didn’t want me holding her. She cried the tears of separation until my grandmother was no longer in sight.

She sniffled a little while and my daughters kept giving her a pacifier, which I immediately took out of her mouth every time and since she didn’t fight me about it, I guess I did the right thing. Finally she just looked at me for a while and let me hold her.

It occurred to me much later that I should have gotten a picture with Jazmyn and Stephen as well. OK, actually Patti had to point it out that I should have gotten a picture with Jazmyn and Stephen as well.

Overall, it was a pretty good night.

Derek Coward » jaymie

Happy Birthday Jaymie

Five Generational Picture