So many of you loved ones have been concerned about Daniel, but equally concerned about how Matthew has been throughout the sequence of events that have taken place. If any of you know Matthew you know that he is the less vocal, less animated and less likely to show emotion of the two boys. This has been very hard on Matthew but, you are right you would never know. The first two weeks he had to take a lot of harsh words from his brother and see his little brother go through a lot of pain. Very difficult to see as you can imagine and surely there are a lot of psychological underlying feelings that go along with these situations as anyone of us with siblings could understand. We all have ill feelings about our siblings growing up, and Matthew and Daniel have never been the closest of friends. But funny how things like this bring families together. But the unexpected happened when Daniel was most scared and worried he called Matthew and Matthew was solid and steady, calming and reassuring. And Matthew took every bit of abuse better than me and surprisingly left each time with words I never heard him say "I love you Daniel. Have a good night."
Matthew has stepped it up big time and I feel this is his summer of change. He has been going to work every day and assuming a lot of responsibility at the store, even though he is having a great time with cousin Gordy. He went to Dallas on a work trip with Rob to see "how the deals happen" (not really) and he has been spending a lot of time on his own while we are with Daniel at the hospital. No doubt he has had a lot of time to think. I am not sure what those thoughts are, but I am sure they have been heavy and difficult and burdensome for a 15 year old boy and I wouldn't wish them on any teenager.
The past few days Matthew has tried to make excuses to not come to the hospital. He has been tired, or has felt a sniffle coming on and wouldn't want to risk exposing Daniel...but then something happened yesterday. Daniel started waking up and feeling better and we needed to optimize on this. Let's get Matthew here while Daniel is awake and feeling good. Low and behold. Like fish take to water it took them less than five minutes and they were bickering.
AAAHHHHH...music to a mother's ears.
Matthew has stepped it up big time and I feel this is his summer of change. He has been going to work every day and assuming a lot of responsibility at the store, even though he is having a great time with cousin Gordy. He went to Dallas on a work trip with Rob to see "how the deals happen" (not really) and he has been spending a lot of time on his own while we are with Daniel at the hospital. No doubt he has had a lot of time to think. I am not sure what those thoughts are, but I am sure they have been heavy and difficult and burdensome for a 15 year old boy and I wouldn't wish them on any teenager.
The past few days Matthew has tried to make excuses to not come to the hospital. He has been tired, or has felt a sniffle coming on and wouldn't want to risk exposing Daniel...but then something happened yesterday. Daniel started waking up and feeling better and we needed to optimize on this. Let's get Matthew here while Daniel is awake and feeling good. Low and behold. Like fish take to water it took them less than five minutes and they were bickering.
AAAHHHHH...music to a mother's ears.
And then there is another brother. Andrew. Dear Andrew Hudson. Andrew is one of Rob's oldest and best friends and no matter what there is always Andrew. In fact Andrew was in my delivery room when Matthew was born before the grandparents even met him so needless to say, we are very close. Andrew is one of the most motivating person we know and is the one Rob goes to for support. Today he came and brought an awesomely dangerous gift and spent time taking DJ Matty Matt down to the new Ryan Seacrest Studios and showing him the ropes and how it is really done on live radio (and live video feed) It was so cute Andrew and Matthew dedicated a song to Daniel up in his room while we watched on the closed circuit tv. Thank you Andrew. You really are a BEST FRIEND and our brother.