My Son Bobby
When I think of Bobby many things come to mind especially the day he was
born. He was 3 weeks late. I guess he was happy right where he was. I
was so happy I had another son and Jason had a brother. I was thrilled
I had 2 sons, I had my boys. Bobby was a cute little boy with curly brown
hair and big brown eyes. I think Bobby lived his life the way he was born,
never in a rush and laid back. I use to tell him he was my best baby.
I know he liked that he would get the Bobby grin on his face. As Bobby
grew up with all the ups and downs he became a sweet and caring young
man. But most of all he loved his family. We were the most important thing
to him. He loved Jason and adored his sisters Ashlee and Rebecca. He would
look for the girls and ask where are the little munchkins. There wasn't
anything he wouldn't do for any of us. He was a great son and brother.
He use to come and lay at the end of my bed and talk to me when I came
home from work until he had to go to work. A few weeks ago he was laying
at the end of the bed and for no reason he said I Love You Mom and I said
what He said I Love You Mom And I said what again he got that big grin
on his face when he realized what I was doing and said I know Mom I don't
say it enough and I said you do I just wanted to hear it a few times and
i said I Love you to Bobby. IM glad for 1 thing I told Bobby I was proud
of him and I loved him. For that I will always be grateful. I think its
important that your children know that and he did. I will miss My Baby
Boy more than I can ever say and don't know how I will live my life without
him. But like the songs says by Boyz to Men I will take with me the memories
to be the sunshine after the rain its so hard to say good bye to yesterday.
I Love You Bobby.
Love you, Mom
We'd like to share some of our thoughts about Robert.
We have always called him Robert. Don't know why we never shortened it
to Rob or even Bobby like our sons Ryan and Justin did. He didn't seem
that to mind though.He always called us Mom and Dad and we certainly didn't
mind at all. It wouldn't feel right if he called us anything else. He
was always over at our house with the other boys in the neighborhood playing
video games. They were so rowdy! Boys will be boys!! We didn't mind, because
we knew where they were and that they were safe. If they weren't inside,
they were playing football or basketball up in the court. Sometimes having
to dodge the crazy neighbor in his truck. He was a great friend to Justin......Judy
as Robert called him. Don't know the long story as to why he called him
that, but he did. We'll have to drag that out of Justin.....we mean Judy!
He ALWAYS had a smile on his face. Never once did we see him in a bad
mood. Never! He was the life of the party. He always came to Justin's
b-day parties and had everyone laughing......including us. As the boys
had gotten older and had girlfriends and jobs, we wouldn't see Robert
as much. He'd still come by on occasion and call. All we had to do is
look out our front door and see his car at his house and we knew he was
there. Comforting feeling knowing they are home and safe. If we were outside
when he was going by he would stop to talk. Sometimes we got the fly by
"Hi Moms" and "Hi Dads" when he was in a hurry. We did hear and appreciated
them. He was here on August 25th. He called twice and then came over.
Still have his calls on our Caller ID.....12:09pm and 1:26pm. Will never
forget the times of the calls. Just can't bring ourselves to delete them.
He came over and he and Justin played video games for a few minutes before
leaving to play football with the other guys. He was suppose to come back
over when they were done. Was going to give him two pictures we had of
him from film we had developed the week before. They are the ones of him
in his old car on the picture page. They were taken in July of this year.
He was taking the car for a drive for Scott (kid who bought his car) to
see what was wrong with it. So it was one of the times he wasn't in a
hurry and stopped to talk. He gave a great big smile and he posed in the
other. I'm sure he would have gotten a kick out of them. We gave the pictures
to Bob and Bernadette instead. August 25 is a day we'll never forget.
I'm (mom) glad I got to see him that day. Wish I had gave him a big hug
before they went to play football. They were out the door quick and all
I got to say was "be careful! ". Justin spent the day with him. A fun filled
happy day ending in such deep sadness. Certainly bittersweet. Justin was
the last friend he was with, so that's a big honor for Justin....Judy.
Something he won't ever forget. Robert was most definitely an angel on
earth. He must be running things up there! He was always happy, smiling,
and had a huge heart as everyone who knew him would agree. Bob and Bernadette
raised a fine young man. We couldn't be more proud of him if he were our
own. Our sorrow for him and his family runs so deep. We will miss him
terribly. We love and miss you Robert.
Denis and Robin Harrigan.......Mom and Dad as he called us.
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