Over the river and through the woods...

We're heading off to Grandma's cottage this afternoon. Today is my youngest brother's 15th birthday and my parents are throwing him a party there. Hard to believe it's been fifteen years already...I still remember when he was born. I was almost 12 years old... My mother went back to work after having him (her 4th child!) so I helped raise him, as well as my two other siblings. But since they were already older, I feel more like I actually raised Vin. I've been through the diapering, bathing, feeding, crawling, and all that baby stuff once already with him, long before I even wanted to be a mother myself. And now he's 15 and towers over me. It's unbelievable how quickly time flies by without you even realizing it.