Sara and I have a baby!
Sara in the Bible had a baby at a more mature age, but my name is not Abraham, so quit raising your eyebrows.
No, this baby was born to our son Floyd and his wife Whitney in Temple, Texas.
Mason Floyd Ingram arrived at 3:18 p.m., May 17, 2024. He tipped the scales at 8-pounds, 14-ounces and was 21-1/2 inches long. He had a head of hair!
Mom, baby and father are doing fine. Grandmother and grandfather are doing very fine.
The Future
I talk a lot about the future in this space. The front page of the newspaper is about the present. You can look at our past in the bound volumes of your Clarksdale Press Register.
Yes, babies have a way of projecting our thoughts to the future.
What will he grow up to be? Will he be smart? Will he play sports? Will he hunt and fish with me? Will he be mechanically inclined like his maternal grandfather? Will he love words like paternal grandfather? Will he love the outdoors like his father? Will he be tall like his father? Will he be hardheaded, but humble, like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather?
Who knows? I don’t, my son Floyd doesn’t either and that’s the scary part about babies.
I remember holding my firstborn in my hands more than 34-years-ago. His round head, his crying mouth and those eyes and the life that gleamed from them will never be forgotten.
When I got married my life was no longer my own. When my first child was born my life took on a new purpose.
When my first grandchild was born, all I could do was smile!
Genetics
Genetics do influence our lot in life, but there are other factors, too.
I’ve never broken a bone, neither has Mason’s daddy or my daddy. Ingram men and women also tend to live long lives.
They say you get your hair from your mother. I firmly believe you get your tender heart from the maternal side. I also think you get much of your religious background from your mother.
They say boys get their demeanor from their dad. I raised my boys much like my father raised me. People tell me when I talk about issues that I sound just like my dad. Men like fixing things and have a wisdom that is naturally passed on to their sons.
I will point out 50-percent of each one of our four boys is Sara Reid Ingram. That’s probably why they turned out so well.
My son has married a smart woman. She has a career. She is not temperamental, runs a clean house and warm kitchen, and leaves nothing to chance. She also loves my son and their baby with all her heart.
Mason is in good hands.
The World
I look at the world around us and wonder what Mason Ingram will see.
When I was born there was no internet, most families had one car and everyone went to church. A home was a man, a woman and their children, The Great Society would come about four years later, there was this new thing called Rock and Roll and the Civil Rights Era was about to bloom.
We had not gone to the moon, The Cold War had everyone scared and my grandparents’, my parents’, and my doctor, were all the same guy. Families lived near each other and had a sense of place, since many were born, lived and were buried in the same community and had been for generations.
The world constantly changes and sometimes the change is good. Sometimes the change is bad.
But change is news and generations come and generations go.
I hope I have helped make little Mason Floyd’s world a little better. I can’t wait to see what he does with it!
Floyd Ingram is the Editor of your Clarksdale Press Register. Don’t call him at 662-627-2201 unless you want to talk to him about his new grandson!
