Jeremy,,, and now... Kennedy.....

Today I was remembering the first time I met Jeremy. I guess I was looking at some pictures of Kennedy and I just naturally started drifting back to times past but most importantly, what a good friend Jeremy was to me.

We just seemed to click from the moment Nikki brought him home. Full of life and something else that I will be nice and not elaborate on, I'll just say that he had charisma. Something that has just grown as he got older.

I knew that Jeremy would do something with his life. It was just an impossibility for him to fail. He might have let the tightrope sag from time to time but he always seemed to catch a spark and rise up again.

Jeremy's presence in our lives during a time that for me was a vulnerable and frightening experience of being alone in the world as a single mom lent a certain feeling of safety. Even when he was young, he was a problem solver and even if he had no answers, he had a talent of laughing you out of the dark space so you could figure out a solution on your own.

His friendship with my daughter has given her a no nonsense, no bullshit friend that tells her what he thinks because he loves her and knows that she loves him back even if he pisses her off which believe me has been more than a few times. I know his one moment of relief was when Nikki finally agreed not to make Jeremy a bridesman. HA HA... I of course, was VERY disappointed. What an essay THAT would have made. I'm so happy that he and Nikki have taken care of their friendship over the years. I guarantee that friendship will bear them both through hard times and joyous ones with a little extra support. Sometimes it's that little extra that makes life bearable during the hard times and enhances the happy ones.

Seeing Kennedy and knowing Cyndi gives me so much happiness because of the shine that comes into Jeremy's eyes when he looks at them.


I tease Jeremy about having a daughter being a little taste of payback from the powers above but what I really mean is what a lucky little girl she is to have a dad as special as Jeremy and a Mom as smart and pretty as Cyndi.

I love you Jeremy!