The Proudest Aunt!

It was March 12, 1990; I was in eight grade I guess. On this day my mom had called the school to say its time she is on her way. I remember running through the halls of Whitter (both schools look so alike) trying to get out as fast as I could full of excitement I just couldn't believe it was time. It was sunny and 75 degrees out that day, I remember it like yesterday. We had made it to the Hospital just in time to find out that little Amy wasn't coming out the traditional way, she was coming butt first. So I and Mom (the future Grandma) waited so patiently for her arrival. She was here it was time to see her, wait the Nurse says to me "you are too young to go into the room to see baby, you'll have to wait till she is home" Boy was I upset, how dare they deny me of seeing my first ever niece, for crying out loud I was the Aunt" Thankfully I think I only had to wait another day or two and she was home. I remember holding her for the first time, she was cute and adorable and so good already. What was a proud Aunt to do?..Then there was the day she smiled at me for the first time, her first wobbly steps she made towards me, the first time she said my name "aunt nea", the last time she ever wet her pants while sitting on my lap as we rode to Great-Grandmas for Christmas, the first time she rode with me in my first car and we sang "Whoop there it is", the first time she wore my band hat, boy was she cute, her first school performance, the day Elissa was born Amy ask "can she get on the floor to play", Amy's kindergarten graduation, sixth grade graduation, band concerts, choir concerts, and now yes I'm feeling old. Amy will perform her last Choir concert of her High school career tonight and I will cry I will use a whole box of Kleenex, I will be happy for her; she is a wonderful young lady with the brightest future ahead of her. An Aunt couldn't be any more proud than what I am right now. Wednesday, June 4th she will walk across that stage and receive her diploma, her permit to become an adult, to explore life in a whole different way. I hope that when it is her time to become an Aunt she is given all the joys that I was given and that her little niece or nephew will make her as proud as I feel to day. I hope that life is kind to you, without to much struggle and heart ache. But because I'm your Aunt and we are suppose to tell you like it is, things will not always be easy, there will be hard times, but with those there will be good. So always remember that when they are bad you have an Aunt who will do anything for you. So when they are good I will be here to pray that the good continues, I will be here to smile at you, I will be here to make you blush or maybe embarrass you, I will just be here to Love you, I will just be here. I love you, always..Your Aunt Nea..