This post has arrived late due to the bermuda triangle of internet service at my mother's house in Spokane.
I think my favorite Thanksgiving ever occurred in 1997. Chance and I had been dating for a couple months and I brought him home to meet my family for the very first time that weekend. It was the first and only time I ever brought a boy home to meet the fam in all my college years. I cannot describe the anxiety I felt on the drive to Vancouver. Would they like him? Would HE like THEM? Would his family resent me for taking him away during the holidays? Would we discover we really didn't connect after all and then have to endure a long weekend together? Would he understand my Black Friday shopping? Would he love my mother's cooking and properly praise it? All of these worries and more (much much more) ran through my mind continuously. The torture of this was magnified by two things:
1. Chance was just as pensive as I was during the trip (it was quiet ... too quiet ... radios are good); and
2. There was monstrous traffic on I-5 for most of the drive.
The normal 2.5 hour trip ran more like 5+ hours that day. A long drive spent torturing myself. I wish I could find my journal because I'm sure I recorded something about the weekend. Right now, I can only remember two things. First, my mother's house was beautiful. She had spent hours killing herself cleaning it for me and my "boyfriend." I'm sure this was compounded by the fact that I had not decided to invite Chance for Thanksgiving until about 24 hours earlier. And second, I was filled with an immense sense of relief after we arrived and Chance settled into place in my family like he'd known them forever. That was the beginning of the end for us. We were engaged about two months later. Looking back to that tremendously joyful Thanksgiving 11 years ago ... how very grateful I am that I brought him along.
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
~Author Unknown
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3 comments:
It was fun to read about your first Thanksgiving together. How cute. I need to do more "things remembered" type of posts.
I could feel myself right there in the moment with you! What a fun memory! I love the quotation at the end - perfect for us wives of techie guys.
I remember that year. You guys had great chemistry I just knew it had to last. And look it did. I love your mom she is great I can't believe that was 11 years ago. Where has the time gone huh??
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