Today is the last day we will be a family of four.
Tomorrow my son Luke takes Jackie for his bride, and we become five.
We are so thrilled about this -- what lovelier thing is there than to have your child find a life partner whom they love and who loves them in return?
And yet there is this melancholy on the edges -- I have loved our family the way it is, and after some bumpy years that put us all in the refiner's fire, we became stronger and wiser and more deeply appreciative of one another.
I've no reason to think that our new member will change us in any way except for the good -- she's an answer to so many prayers, and I couldn't have chosen anyone better for my son if I'd tried -- but I just want to somehow mark this day as special since it's our last one as a foursome.
There is so much love, so much joy, so much good humor here right now. I recently opined that if I had one magical power, it would be to freeze time. That would be nice right about now, at least for a moment.
4 comments:
What wonderful thoughts for today :-)
Hugs for the sweetness of this thought...
What beauiful sentiments! And you have frozen time - at least in your memory banks!
Mel
.. and then there will five..
Loved Mel's comment - too true.
Ah but El....you were outnumbered by all those guys... Jackie will even up the score.. well, at least for now..
Some day it'll be a case of: "..and then there were.... six? Seven? Eight? Nine?...
;-)))
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