This week I am going to depart from the food based blogging and talk about something much more important to me. You see, this week was my sons one year birthday! Corbin Daniel Tuning was born on June 9th 2009, and my life has not been the same since. Let me point out that I will be turning forty years old this year, and I never thought I would ever have a family like I do now.
I spent my twenties dating, partying, and basically avoiding any kind of serious relationship. I then spent the early years of my thirties thinking I should settle down. Frankly, dating in your thirties sucks. It is hard to find someone who is available, let alone someone who is also looking to settle down. Most thirty somethings have been through the emotional, relationship wringer. Most are divorced and have no interest in going down that road again. Most have children and don't want to start over again with formula and diapers.
I met my wife when I was thirty five, she was thirty four, divorced and had a ten year old son. She also had no interest in starting over with a newborn. At that time in my life I had determined that I was too old to be having a baby anyway so her disinterest in having any more children didn't matter. Our romance grew, we moved in together, then an odd thing happened; we decided that we should try to have a baby together. Our feelings for each other brought us to the same place, we wanted to have a child together. Something that was ours together, us, hers and mine. It is a difficult thing to put into words, however we knew we should try to have a child.
After a very short time of trying, we were successful! Seriously, it was less than one month of trying. My wife had a fairly good pregnancy with no sickness apart from some heartburn. We bought Costco sized packages of Tums. Nine months went by and our son was born.
He has affected me deeply, our experience with him has been wonderful. To say that he is a blessing is an understatement. For those of you who are wondering, my step son is now fourteen years old and adjusting from being an only child to being a big brother, and he is doing fantastic as well.
For Corbin's birthday we had a family barbecue. We invited all the grandparents and cousins we could think of. Corbin had a wonderful day. As you can imagine he had a ball tearing open his presants. And as infants do, he seemed to have more fun with the wrapping paper than with the toys inside. He is one of the happiest babies I have seen. Total strangers are always compelled to some up and speak to him. We never leave a store without some sort of complement on what a happy baby he is.
The only odd thing about his birthday was that he did not like the birthday cake! Knowing that he has my genes the disinterest in cake came as quite a shock to me.
Happy Birthday son, we love you.
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