Quashwn
on your 18th birthday
July 29, 2009
By Your Mom
As I sit back and think about how big this day is I have so many thoughts.
This is a key birthday on your path to manhood, a key date on your road to greatness. I feel so much pride in who you’re becoming.
I can still remember the day you made me a mommy. 52 hours of labor. They didn’t want to give a minor a C-Section so I endured the contractions with the family coming in shifts until you decided you couldn’t be in there any longer. Your heart rate dropped and Dr. Gandhi said, “Okay let’s get him out of there.”
Your life I held in my hands and at a mere 17 years old and I still didn’t minimize the importance. You fully and completely relied on me for every single thing you could ever need. All your nourishment, even while you grew inside of me. I ate what you needed to sustain your life. I rested to restore myself to carry you for 9 months +2 weeks.
God entrusted your very existence to me. Wow!
God placed and cultivated the little, beautiful, dimpled, mustached, happy, gift in my belly and I named him Quashwn. I said, “I’m going to make the name up because I want my baby to be unique, I want my baby to be different.” You are.
You are also
Leader
Strong
Loving
Kind
Funny
Persistent
Perceptive
Intelligent
The greatest 18 year old young man there is
I love you so much. I’m trying not to punk up and cry. I am proud of who you are and who you are becoming. God has a great work for you to do and I am so glad he let me play a part in it.
~ Yo Mama ~
Catherine E. Paige
