Wednesday: Apple Tart.Thursday:
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My mother
She gave us the weekend
Just the two of us
Two
Together
As one
Delighting
In each other
In our marriage
God joined us
God keeps us
Together
As one
In Him
My husband
A wonder
He loves me
Like my Father
Without condition
But with passion
Passion!
Uniquely
Bound together
Nothing but death
Will be allowed
To separate
This union
Nothing
We vowed
God promised help
He sustains
(550 million seconds married thus far)
The day before yesterday was another action-packed day...
Emily, age 12, got her ears pierced...in Aspen, the same town where I got mine pierced at age 25, one month after my mom got her ears pierced at age 52...thirteen years ago. Emily was very brave, and there was a really cute, calm, diminutive, white dog sitting atop a wheeling cart of drawers right next to Emily's chair, encouraging her. I wasn't too thrilled with Emily's friends on Facebook who at first told her it wouldn't hurt, then afterwards said they said that so she wouldn't worry...so now she can't believe anything they say? The truth, please!!! We told her it would hurt a lot, and she wasn't allowed to complain since this was totally optional, and she had to have the second ear done once she'd done the first one, and checked multiple times to make sure she still wanted to do it - and then it didn't hurt as much as she was expecting.
Then we took the cable car up Ajax mountain (11,212 feet, or 3417m) above Aspen, where Jason and David played 18 holes of Disc Golf (yes, Frisbee golf, except that's a trademark and not all flying discs are Frisbees TM), while Emily and I got the frame done of a 1000-piece ultra-colorful hummingbird puzzle while listening to the fans ooh and ahh over the Spain-Germany soccer World Cup game, and glancing at the screen occasionally.
Then Emily and I tried out the bungee trampolines, where Emily did her flips as usual, and I did my first flip ever! Exciting. I thought the gargantuan bouncing was exciting enough, but due to an encouraging comment from my sweet husband, standing there with a camera, I tried it out, and managed to get all the way over on my third try.
This summer is full of firsts! The hardest high ropes trail, jumping off the TN porch into the river, Emily's ears pierced, and now the bungee flip...wonder what's next.
Then we met a boatload of soon-to-be new relatives, who had arrived yesterday from Texas and Connecticut: my mother-in-law's fiancé's brother-in-law from his first marriage (his wife died of cancer years ago), his wife, their two daughters, a son-in-law, and 4 grandkids, ranging in age from 7 down to 5 months. Let's see, what does that make them to me? My stepfather-in-law-to-be's family, let's keep it at that. I don't think there are names for these relationships, with multiple in-lawness... But also two older granddaughters who are blood-related - my step-nieces-in-law-to-be. For my kids, some new step-cousins. All the "to be" stuff can be removed on Saturday after the wedding! A nice group of people. I loved holding the 5-month-old boy, a very happy and cuddly baby.
Then, if all that were not enough activity for the day, we all went to the rodeo, then came home for ice cream and berries. A fine ending to a wonderful day.
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