12/1/2009

To my son, Edward,

Well, here we are on this the occasion of your 10th birthday!

I just want to let you know how much I llike being your Dad. I am so lucky to have a wonderful boy like you.

Part of your wonderfulness is that you are intelligent, sensitive, sweet and artistic. These are beautiful qualities and although at times they may appear to be liabilities I want you to know that these are some of the things that make you so very special. Trust me on this. Daddy knows.

You are already a 4th grader but I’ll bet you think time is passing slowly, at least that’s the way I felt about it when I was your age. You’re really growing up fast and soon you will be man and you’ll be talking about beer and girls. I’ll be there for you then but, just for the record, I want you to know I really llike you just the way you are right now, a ten-year old kid with a room full of Pokemon & nerf guns.

I have, and will continue to celebrate you at every age from the moment you arrived in the delivery room at St. Joseph’s where you surprised both me and your mother with that quiet, calm, knowing poise. It was so unusual, and it was so you.

And now we come to my birthday wish for you- Aside from that smokin’ hot Macintosh computer (that’s better than mine), my wish is that you celebrate yourself at every age, at every stage in your life, for you are the best son a father could ever ask for and this universe is damn lucky to have Edward J. Crummey IV!

Here’s to you, Edward.

Many Happy returns of the Day!