A Little History...

I am a mother of 3 and I consider this to be my greatest achievement. Two sons and a daughter. I have been married for 30 years (to the same wonderful man) and life as we know it has been pretty darn great! We actually thought that we were a complete family after our two sons where born....so much so that my husband thought he would buy a "sports car"......loan in place, ready to pick up when I started not to feel so well.....yep, you guessed it, baby #3 was on the way. So for many years and even occasionally now, we refer to Kadie as my husbands little 300 ZX. College is "almost" complete for us, Kadie only has one more semester and then a year of student teaching to do and we are home free.......or so we thought! Mark has longed for a lake house....he loves to fish and life would be complete if he had somewhere to go and park it for the weekend! So he began to look.....even took the oldest son with him over the holidays....scoped out beautiful lots that would provide lakeside sunsets, great fishing and restful weekends ....... life is once again looking as though things might work out as he would like...... I don't know why he thought a lake house was in the picture anytime soon.....college may be almost complete but don't most kids end up wanting to get married? Well apparently my better half didn't think that would happen anytime in the very near future.....HA.....jokes on him! Kadie has been dating "the boyfriend" for two years now.....graduation was at the end of the tunnel, "the boyfriend" already graduated and has a job....what was he thinking???? Well, over the holidays (and only days after the excursion to view the lake lots) he got the call......you know what I'm talking about ..... "the call" the one where "the boyfriend" asks if he could meet him for dinner...... I know the blood pressure medicine did nothing for the spike he experienced when "the call" came in...... Most of the time Mark doesn't call me during the day from work....if he has a brief lapse of time at the office, I may get an occasional email but rarely calls. Well, I was busy with holiday decorating and an urgent text dinged in on my phone......call me at the office asap! Thinking something terrible happened I did just that.....immediate pick up and sounding exasperated on the other end....he says, "the boyfriend" just called and wants to meet for dinner......do you know what this is about......with only a brief moment of silence, we both knew what this meant.......goodbye lake house......it will be a few more years before we will meet again...... my husbands only daughter and best friend is going to get married...... Now there is something to be said about the relationships between a father and his daughter. There is a very special one in our home and all of our friends and family know this.....he loves his sons, but he "loves" his Kadie. The proposal was to be kept a secret and we didn't tell a soul until the day before it was to happen....and only then because I wanted to celebrate just a little when they returned home. We both love David (aka..."the boyfriend") and he is well aware of the bond between father and daughter...... let the fun begin......