Jack's 20th Birthday--October 3, 2015

Jack turned 20 years old today.  I don't like it when people say this, but I can't believe it has been 20 years.  I have mixed feelings, but mostly, honestly, it is sadness, for the time gone by.

This is how I remember Jack...so much fun, always smiling as a little boy, and eager to make friends.

Jack is almost 4 1/2 here.   February 2000.

                                    He was so good to his little sister and brothers, and silly.

                                           He was devoted to me..and used to talk my ear off.

   I love this picture of us...I am holding Timmy, but leaning down, also holding Jack, smiling at him.  

 I can remember so vividly the day he was born, but it is now 20 years ago.  We had the hardest time deciding on a name.  I liked the name Jack, but I was resistant, because I said every Jack I knew had a drinking problem.  But who could deny that Jack Gallagher was a great name for this baby?   He became Jack.  And he  now he is 675 miles away, at Notre Dame, and he is doing what he should be doing--in college, having fun, but all very far away from his family.

Happy Birthday, Jack...we miss you!!