WOW NINE YRS. ALREADY!
A QUITE AND SPECIAL MOMENT BETWEEN A MOTHER AND DAUGHTEROK I KNOW THIS IS NOT A TRADITIONAL ANNIVERSARY POST, WITH PICTURES OF THE BEAUTIFUL COUPLE, (AND YOU GUYS ARE A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE). IT'S NOT THAT I DIDN'T HAVE PLENTY OF PICTURE CHOICES OF YOU TWO FROM YOUR WEDDING DAY EITHER, BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT, AND EACH AND EVERY ONE BRINGS BACK SUCH A BEAUTIFUL, JOYOUS AND WONDERFUL MEMORY OF THAT DAY. IT'S JUST I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT WEDDING ANNIVERSARYS ARE A SPECIAL DAY BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND WIFE, IT'S THEIR DAY, SOMETHING JUST FOR THE TWO OF THEM. NOW THAT BEING SAID, IS WHERE THE STANDARD HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO YOU GUYS COMES IN, I WISH I LIVED BY YOU SO YOU COULD GO OUT AND CELEBRATE AND DO SOMETHING SPECIAL, WHILE I HAD THE PLEASURE OF WATCHING THE KIDDO'S. I'M PROUD OF YOU BOTH AND THE LIFE YOU HAVE MADE FOR EACH OTHER AND YOUR CHILDREN.
NOW HERE IS WHERE THE NOT SO TRADITIONAL PART OF THE POST COMES IN. FOR ME THIS DAY IS ALSO A ANNIVERSARY, IT IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN OUR RELATIONSHIP CHANGED OR SHOULD I SAY EVOLVED. NOW WE WEREN'T ONLY MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, BUT WE WERE NOW BOTH WIVES TOO, IT WAS A WHOLE NEW DEMENSION TO OUR RELATIONSHIP.
WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THIS DAY, AND PLANNED FOR THIS DAY, AND HAD A VISION FOR THIS DAY, FOR YEARS. MOST ALL GIRLS AND THEIR MOMS DREAM ABOUT THIS DAY FROM THE TIME THEY ARE LITTLE. KEY WORD HERE WOULD BE "DAY". YES YOU THINK ABOUT THE "DAY", YOU DREAM ABOUT THE "DAY", YOU PLAN FOR THIS "DAY". YOU EVEN FEEL ALL OF THE EMOTIONS OF THE "DAY". EXCITEMENT, JOY, ANTICIPATION, EXUBERANCE, AND EVEN A BIT OF ANXIETY. IT'S ALL SO THRILLING, EVERYTHING LEADING UP TO THIS "DAY", LIKE THE PLANNING, SHOPPING, COOKING, CLEANING, MAKING, BAKING, DECORATING, LOOKING THROUGH DOZENS AND DOZENS OF MAGAZINES FOR IDEAS, FLOWERS, FLOWER GIRL, BIDES MAIDS, SEWING, INVITAITONS, BUBBLES, MUSIC, NAPKINS, PLATES, FOOD, FOOD AND MORE FOOD, PUNCH, PUNCH BOWL, CAKE, NOT JUST ANY CAKE BUT A UNIQUE CAKE, COLORS, REVISIONS, MORE REVISIONS, HAIR, MAKE-UP, NAILS, SHOES, JEWELRY, CLOTHES FOR THE HONEYMOON, AND OF COURSE WHO COULD FORGET, THE PERFECT DRESS. THERE IS LITERALLY A 101 PLUS THINGS TO DO, IN PREPERATION FOR THE "DAY".
THEN ON THE "DAY" SEPTEMBER 12, 1998 BOTH OF OUR LIVES DRASTICALLY CHANGED. YOU KNOW THE EMOTIONS THIS MEANT FOR YOU; JOY, EXCITEMENT, ANTICIPATION, AND MAYBE EVEN A BIT OF TREPIDATION. SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE THE EMOTIONS THIS DAY BROUGHT FOR ME, FROM A MOTHER'S POINT OF VIEW. OR SHOULD I SAY THE DAY AFTER THIS "DAY". BECAUSE PRIOR AND UP THROUGH THIS "DAY" I WAS WAY TOO BUSY, TO EVEN THINK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, LET ALONE FEEL ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT WEDDING DRIVEN.
OK, I TRIED PUTTING THIS INTO WORDS, AND IT JUST ENDED UP BEING A SMALL NOVEL. EVEN AFTER EDITING, EDITING AND MORE EDITING. SO I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WOULD BE BETTER IF I SAVED THE LONG VERSION FOR SOME SCRAP BOOK PAGES.
I'LL HAVE TO DO THOSE FOR YOU. SO FOR NOW, AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG, I WILL JUST LIST WORDS WHICH WERE THE EMOTIONS I HAD.
DELIGHT, EXCITEMENT, AMOROUS, APPREHENSIVE, SADDNESS, BENEVOLENCE, ANXIETY, LAUGHTER, EXHILERATION, TREPIDATION, SATISFACTION, REPOSE, NERVOUSNESS, EMPTYNESS, ENTHUSIASUM, ANTICIPATION, ACCOMPLISHNENT, DISSOLUTE, AFFECTION, AMBIGUOUS, CONTENT, CALM, DISCORD, SATISFACTION, RELIEF, INQUISITIVENESS, BEWILDERED, MELANCHOLY, SOLEMN, JOYOUS, UNCERTAINTY, SOLITARY, EXUBERANCE, PRIVILEGED, FORTUNATE, ADMIRATION, GRATEFUL, PRIDE.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I LOVE YOU.
2 comments:
This is very sweet. Your child's wedding day must be such a day of mixed emotions. It already makes me sad to think about Addison leaving home some day.
Awwww! Thank you. This was a nice post. I can't even imagine the range of emotions that a parent must feel when they "give their daughter away." You captured all the right words. And I think this would be a wonderful scrapbook page.
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