Celebrating the One Who Made Me Mama: Zac Turns 17

It is just one year from now that our Zac will be a full-fledged adult!  Seventeen has arrived, and with it, an extra nostalgic and clingy mom.  Ha!  I am sure I am getting annoying with my longing looks and stops by his room just to chat, "So, what's going on in Zac-world?," but he's got a year-plus of it to endure, so he might as well get used to it!

We celebrated our boy well on his special day (and the day after), right in the heart of finals week at school.  Among the studying and test-taking, we found time for some hard-earned and well-deserved fun for our amazing kid.  His birthday breakfast was at six-o'dark-thirty, so pardon the sleepy faces, but he received his most-wanted (and only) gift, an Apple Watch, and we took him to lunch at Panda Express after his finals were over.  The day after his birthday was the release of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, so what better way to celebrate our Star Wars fan than with tickets to the pre-release night showing (December 14th)?  We sat in the fancy reclining seats in Regal's RPX theater--every explosion shook our whole bodies!  It was a great movie and Zac loved it.  Side note: Luke and I missed the last 20 minutes of the movie, when he was taken out by a stomach bug just before it ended--but thankfully, we made it to the trash cans, and the theater gave us vouchers to see it again in its entirety.

Happy 17th, Zac!  We hope you know how loved you are!