Wow. That was a long, crazy, busy weekend.
Friday night, DrummerWife and I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of a long-time DrummerFamily-friend. My God-parent's daughter got married to an old friend of mine from high school, and it proved to be an exhausting night for both of us - both physically and emotionally.
First off, before anyone gets the wrong idea, it is 100% A-OK for you to approach us and talk about Aaron, the blog, or anything relating to either. We do enjoy talking about it - honestly. But I guess that neither DrummerWife or myself realized how much of an impact everything really made on many of you. It was surprising to hear from so many people about how they read the blog every day, or how often they pray for DrummerWife or myself. It really is great to hear. But by the end of the night (after a few beers/wines/etc.) it really started to *impact* us.
It's also strange to see what effects us and what doesn't. We were at a wedding - a happy occasion - and we really do like both the bride and groom - they're great people, we get along well with both of them, and we were both so happy to see them "tie the knot." But watching the groom dance with his mother...well...it kinda did a number on DrummerWife. Kind of a "this is one more thing that Aaron will never do, and I'll never get to do with him" moment for DrummerWife. It was the kind of thing you wouldn't have even though about until the moment you saw it occurring to someone else and went - "Oh crap..."
It didn't take long for her to recover though, and we really did have a great time Friday night. It was nice catching up with a bunch of my old high school friends and acquaintances.
Saturday night, we went up to the Reading Phillies for a double-header as part of the birthday celebration for a friend of ours from our Nerd Night group. Our friend got to throw out the first pitch as part of the whole deal, and despite that fact that his throw managed to traverse approximately 1/10th of the 60 feet, 6 inches from the pitchers mound to home plate, it was a good time, too. (We were just a little bushed from the night before: free beer and wine sticks with you for a little while after the fact.)
Sunday was church, and lunch afterwards with my parents, brother (and his girlfriend), grandparents, and cousins (and my cousin Dan's son). We went out to celebrate DrummerWife and my 2nd anniversary which is today.
We're keeping it low-key tonight. We're finally going to get around to drinking the champagne we got as a wedding gift from my friend 2 years ago (we were going to save it for our 1st anniversary...but we were kind of alcohol-ed out last year as the result of a little over-drinking of wine at an outdoor concert at a winery the night before.) But we're going to pop the cork tonight and pour the champagne out into the champagne flutes my friend gave us with the bubbly, cook a nice meal, exchange cards, and watch our wedding video. We wanted to do more, but the last few months have made that kinda impractical. We'll have a good time, I'm sure. It's been 2 great years, despite the trials of the past few months.
I love you, DrummerWife. :)
Friday night, DrummerWife and I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of a long-time DrummerFamily-friend. My God-parent's daughter got married to an old friend of mine from high school, and it proved to be an exhausting night for both of us - both physically and emotionally.
First off, before anyone gets the wrong idea, it is 100% A-OK for you to approach us and talk about Aaron, the blog, or anything relating to either. We do enjoy talking about it - honestly. But I guess that neither DrummerWife or myself realized how much of an impact everything really made on many of you. It was surprising to hear from so many people about how they read the blog every day, or how often they pray for DrummerWife or myself. It really is great to hear. But by the end of the night (after a few beers/wines/etc.) it really started to *impact* us.
It's also strange to see what effects us and what doesn't. We were at a wedding - a happy occasion - and we really do like both the bride and groom - they're great people, we get along well with both of them, and we were both so happy to see them "tie the knot." But watching the groom dance with his mother...well...it kinda did a number on DrummerWife. Kind of a "this is one more thing that Aaron will never do, and I'll never get to do with him" moment for DrummerWife. It was the kind of thing you wouldn't have even though about until the moment you saw it occurring to someone else and went - "Oh crap..."
It didn't take long for her to recover though, and we really did have a great time Friday night. It was nice catching up with a bunch of my old high school friends and acquaintances.
Saturday night, we went up to the Reading Phillies for a double-header as part of the birthday celebration for a friend of ours from our Nerd Night group. Our friend got to throw out the first pitch as part of the whole deal, and despite that fact that his throw managed to traverse approximately 1/10th of the 60 feet, 6 inches from the pitchers mound to home plate, it was a good time, too. (We were just a little bushed from the night before: free beer and wine sticks with you for a little while after the fact.)
Sunday was church, and lunch afterwards with my parents, brother (and his girlfriend), grandparents, and cousins (and my cousin Dan's son). We went out to celebrate DrummerWife and my 2nd anniversary which is today.
We're keeping it low-key tonight. We're finally going to get around to drinking the champagne we got as a wedding gift from my friend 2 years ago (we were going to save it for our 1st anniversary...but we were kind of alcohol-ed out last year as the result of a little over-drinking of wine at an outdoor concert at a winery the night before.) But we're going to pop the cork tonight and pour the champagne out into the champagne flutes my friend gave us with the bubbly, cook a nice meal, exchange cards, and watch our wedding video. We wanted to do more, but the last few months have made that kinda impractical. We'll have a good time, I'm sure. It's been 2 great years, despite the trials of the past few months.
I love you, DrummerWife. :)
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Love,
Tracey
XOXO
I kept trying to figure out what wine sticks were! And then it hit me.
Elderly Uncle
I won't sing the song, but I'm remembering DrummerMom singing it at you...and that was BEFORE the wine started flowing ;-)
Shanna