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| LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY |
| Mother & Child |
| We all give my older brother Patrick a lot of grief, and his poor wife is one of the reasons. Paddy and Tammy got married within weeks after they graduated from college. Both of them headed off to graduate school the very next term. Before the start of the Fall term, Tammy was pregnant with their first children. Just like my folks, first try out of the gate, they were having twins. Our grandfather was a twin, and my grandmother insisted my mother had the energy of a pair of twins, so when Tammy found out there were two little bundles in there, I really don't think anyone was surprised. But, having twins meant that some changes had to be made. And that meant she was dropping out of grad school. My brother fought long and hard to keep her in classes, but Tammy was insistent that she was not going to sacrifice her family's well-being just to take classes. She claimed that she would be perfectly happy as a regular teacher once the twins started school, and that being an administrator could wait until her children were more grown. Just as she was getting the most adorable toe-headed fraternal twins in the world ready for preschool, and looking into getting her teaching licensure started, she got the news. Pregnancy number two had already begun. And that was when the jokes really started. Mikey was the first, as usual, to start giving Patrick grief about keeping his poor wife barefoot and pregnant all the time. To her credit, Tammy always took it in stride. She had grown up with a military father, and a mother who worked. She felt like it was important to her for she and Patrick to be there for their children in the ways she thought her parents had missed out on. When she was a teenager, her father retired from the military and they became close after that, but she always wondered what her life could have been if she'd had her father as a young girl. When Colleen, their 3rd child, was born Tammy asked me to take some pictures of the baby. Colleen had some problems early in her life, and they were very concerned she wouldn't make it through that first year. So, I took A LOT of pictures of my pretty Colleen. However, out of all of the pictures I took of her those first tenuous months, this is my favorite. It not only showed a beautiful, healthy child, but it showed the source of her beauty and her health. Tammy is one of the best mothers I have ever known, and I thank God every day that my brother found such an amazing woman to be the mother of his children, as well as his best friend. The O'Halleran men seem to excel in that particular area, and this picture showcases that quite nicely. |
