I know TheQueen is going to be mad that I beat her to posting a Happy Anniversary post but hey you snooze you loose right? I just want to wish her a Happy 9th Anniversary, as usual there is nothing mushy in my writing, I guess I used it all up in our first 5 years together. Maybe next year for our 10th Anniversary, if I start jotting things down now I will have some new material. But for now… Te Amo Mi Amor
Growing up was hard for me, I was this skinny skinny long haired girl, who was (back then) shy and scared to talk to anyone. I am sure that all of us at one time or another have been picked on or made fun of at school. Sure I had some friends but the ones who were “cool” never gave me the time of day. Of course as I started High School, I still kept to myself only because the school I was attending was not such a safe school to be in. I still had my small group of friends but kept my distance from others.
My son came home yesterday (Valentine’s Day) and he looked bummed, so I asked him what was wrong and he said he had a bad day, I told him to tell me what happened so he proceeds to go through is “ENTIRE” day, once he is done I look at him and ask “So why are you so bummed? Nothing you told me explains why you look sad”. He says I can’t tell you. Oh yes you can and I want to know now is my repsonse. He says that he wanted to give a girl something for Valentine’s Day (she was once his little girlfriend for about a week,lol) so his big sister gave him a necklace to give to this girl. He said at recess he went up to her and asked her to be his Valentine and gave her the necklace, she looked at it and through it on the floor and said “No I will not be your Valentine, I don’t like you”. So I went to where my son was standing and I hugged him and said to him “I will always be your valentine son and do not worry because you are going to go through this time and time again with girls, but right now you are so young to be worried about things like this and in time there will be girls that like you and will want you to be their boyfriend.” Then he says “well when is that?” My reply? “When you are 24 dude!”. LOL
My thing is why are kids so rude to each other? This little girl crushed him, does she have no clue how long it took him to get up the courage to ask her? She could have at least said “Sorry R I am someone elses Valentine, and leave out the I don’t like you part. But I have told my son just like I told my eldest daughter that there are going to be girls/guys coming in and out of your life and when you feel one of them is the right one you will be on cloud nine and it will feel right to be together. My son was pretty quiet the rest of the night, but today he seemed his self so hopefully he got over what happened and will just continue with his young life, going to school to learn lots of things and hopefully what happened yesterday will make him become a better person, a stronger person. I did tell him that life sucks sometimes especially if something doesn’t go your way. I wish I would have had someone to talk to when I was young then I would have known that kids can be cruel to each other but don’t take it personal they are just rude people trying to look cool.
First I would like to say Happy Anniversary to my cousin and his wife, I believe its their 10th. It is also if I am not mistaken its the 10th anniversary of my 3rd date with the Queen.
To my wife I would like to wish her a Happy Valentine’s Day, I love you very much. And thank you for the car full of paper cutout hearts. I will be making you your favorite dinner tonight and if you get the kids to bed early you can have your favorite desert..ME!
This is not about my first sleepover as a child, that I cannot remember. This is about my first night/day stayover at the Queen’s house before we were married.
Let’s roll the clock back to February of 1998, I had slept over at her place a few times in the past, never in her bed, seriously, really, I swear. This was because she lived 35 minutes from me and I really didn’t want to go home after we had been getting it on till 2am. So I would get up at 5am before the Big One would wake up, drive home , shower and go to work. But on this night ( if 2am is considered night ) it was different, I crashed on the couch as usual, but when I woke at 5am and looked outside all I could see was snow blowing sideways. I could barely make out the street from the window, mostly because of the blowing snow but also due to the fact that there was about 6 inches of snow on the ground and the street was covered along with everything else outside. There was NO WAY I was getting home in this. When the Queen saw the snow we both decided to call and tell work we were not coming in. Did I mention it was a Thursday.
During the course of the day the snow continued to come down very hard, noone was going anyplace in the Chicago area. The news was reporting that the expressway I needed to use to get home was shutdown and that there had been people stranded there for over 8 hours not moving. Sure am glad I didn’t try to go home. Over the course of the day, the plows were beginning to make some headway, but the snow was blowing back onto the road as fast as they were removing it and travel times were still about 4 hours to go the 30 miles I needed to go. I was officially stranded.
Friday came and it was still a mess outside, tollway was still in bad shape with accidents all over the road, traffic moving at a snails pace, so we both decided we were better off to just stay home again. I did mention that I went home every morning right, thought so, just wanted to remind you. It is day two and I still have on the same clothes I had on Wednesday. Obviously neither of us were prepared for this, I had no spare clothes with me, and her ex husband was about 9″ shorter than I am, so even if she did have any of his stuff lying around it surely was not going to fit me. I wrapped a towel around my waste as she washed my pants and things and she gave me the biggest sweatshirt she had which was still too small, oh and it had a BIG picture of Elvis’s head on it. I know sexy right.
Saturday morning came around and the sun finally came out and things were beginning to look better, I think we got about 15″ of snow over the two days, plows had the street under control, people were getting around finally. I decided that it was time to go outside myself and dig out the cars and shovel the driveway so I could hopefully get home. While I was outside shoveling I could see the Queen, the Big One and The Boy looking out at me, I think they were laughing at me because of how completely dorky I looked with this big Elvis head poking out from my jacket. After I had been out there about 45 minutes or so the Queen came out, reached up and gave me a kiss and told me for the first time that she loved me.
