Year 1: O_o<\/p>\n
Year 2: What is this “toilet” you speak of?<\/p>\n
Year 3: I have to wear clothes all the time?<\/p>\n
Year 4: I will not wear this particular set of clothes – down the toilet it goes!<\/p>\n
Year 5: What is this “school” you speak of?<\/p>\n
Year 6: I rock at school \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Year 7: What is this “CCD” you speak of?<\/p>\n
Year 8: First Communion! \ud83d\ude42 (alternatively – first girlfriend!)<\/p>\n
Year 9: 4D<\/p>\n
Year 10: I don’t remember anything from this year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Year 11: Band! Trumpet! Selina! Dungeons & Dragons!<\/p>\n
Year 12: Bike riding all over Weslaco<\/p>\n
Year 13: Puberty! (Shaving, too – I was and continue to be folically superior)<\/p>\n
Year 14: High School! Marching Band!<\/p>\n
Year 15: So many good friends!<\/p>\n
Year 16: Wait . . . High School is almost over?<\/p>\n
Year 17: Graduation! (also, staying up all night the night of prom – partying? no! playing\u00a0serenatas<\/em> all over Weslaco cause the next day was Mother’s Day)<\/p>\n Year 18: College (also, getting my driver’s license – yay!) (also, Milton visiting me when I was the only guy in my freshman dorm pool surrounded by girls) (also, I don’t always swim in my freshman dorm . . . but when I do, I make sure I’m the only guy surrounded by girls)<\/p>\n Year 19: Religion! Theology! Philosophy! Psychology! Anthropology! Sociology! (I loved college reading \/ classes)<\/p>\n Year 20: Wait . . . college is almost over?<\/p>\n Year 21: Graduation!<\/p>\n Year 22: Diocesan Office of Youth Ministry, Associate Director<\/p>\n Year 23: Marriage!\u00a0\uff3c(~o~)\uff0f \uff3c(^o^)\uff0f \uff3c(-o-)\uff0f<\/p>\n Year 24: Wait . . . what do you mean I’m the only one in this diocesan office now?<\/p>\n Year 25: Baby!\u00a0\uff3c(~o~)\uff0f \uff3c(^o^)\uff0f \uff3c(-o-)\uff0f (also discovered Diablo!)<\/p>\n Year 26: Fired!\u00a0(?_?) \u00a0(also, what are all of these “diapers” you speak of?)<\/p>\n Year 27: Campus Minister, Our Lady of Sorrows School \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Year 28: What do you mean my son is going to school next year?<\/p>\n Year 29: Son’s first year of school! (at OLS, of course) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Year \u00a030: Why yes, Sr. Maxie, I do play this card game called “Magic.” Yes, at my age. Yes, my friends play, too. Why yes, Ms. Jeanne, I do still play this roleplaying game called Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, at my age. Yes, my friends play, too.<\/p>\n Year 31:\u00a0Still playing trumpet! (Though my range and stamina are horrible compared to the wonder years of High School).<\/p>\n Year \u00a032: Discovered Neverwinter Nights \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Year 33: Still married! (meaning – my wife still puts up with me!)<\/p>\n Year 34: Discovered Blogging \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Year 35: Hmm . . . 1\/2 way to 70! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Year \u00a036: Why no, son, I don’t want to try this “World of Warcraft” game you started playing – I don’t think I’ll get into it.<\/p>\n Year \u00a037: What do you mean my son is leaving OLS next year?<\/p>\n Year \u00a038:\u00a0What do you mean my son is going to High School next year?<\/p>\n Year \u00a039: My son had an awesome first year of High School! (Wait . . . how old am I now?)<\/p>\n Year 40: Still in love with my wife, still loving my son, still rocking a full head of hair, still rocking \ud83d\ude42 (and wailing on the trumpet) (and playing WOW) (and Diablo III) (and\u00a0occasionally\u00a0Magic and D&D) (and finally started blogging again) (and desperately needs to exercise!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Year 1: O_o Year 2: What is this “toilet” you speak of? Year 3: I have to wear clothes all<\/p>\n