Acknowledgments Introduction 1 .SPECIAL MOMENTS My Son Adolescence Sunshine in the Sand My Sinking Heart Mother Love A Part of the Team Ricochet 7:07 Prayers Happy Feet Listen to What I Hear 2.BOYS WILL BE BOYS! Getting Even! The Mother's Day Note Chalk It Up It Is What It Is Making the Grade A Place in the Sun The Gotcha Game The Asparagus Costume The Cowboy Suit My Hero A Heart of Compassion Big Hair Wassup? Raising Eyebrows Sounding Bored 3.A MOTHER'S LOVE Ready or Not A Girl The Threads That Bind The Bedtime Story Coach for a Day Spencer's Morn The Rustic Rink The Yellow Boat Homecoming Welcome Home A Mother's Bond 4.A SON'S LOVE Voicing My Wish The Necklace Reel l,ove Sharing Flowers Tea Party Paul's Bike The Love of His Life A Swing of Fate Song-and-Dance Man Captain Kirk Goodnight,Mom His Mother 5.OVERCOMING OBSTACLES A Constant Presence No Limits Hearts in Our Eyes Cerebral Chaos The Optimist Wishing Upon a Son Hush,Little Baby What's in a Name? A Tackle Box of His Own Reconnecting Forwarded Prayer Ma & Me & Gin Whoever You Are, I Love You Pay It Forward 6.LIFE LESSONS Happy Father's Day,Morn Bundle of Boy Climbing in the Ring Rewind Majestic Morns The Almost Home Run It's Not Windy Enough Two Left Feet My Mother's Piano What Will I Be? Not Jeffrey's Morn Popcorn and Dirty,Bare Feet Sliver of Silence “Those Kids” A Mother of a Job Our Morn: A Book by David and Paul 7.LETTING GO Don't Blink The Last First Day School Days Back-to-School Blues My Sunshine Manual Training Changing Course Saturday Mornings Who Gives This Son? The Day My Son Became a Marine Momma's Memorial 8.BECOMING A MAN My Son Being a Man Going to the Dance Snips and Snails and Puppy-Dog Tails Driving Lessons Grown Up And Now a Man The Charming Con Answering the Call That's My Son!