So I’ve never had a child get married before. Tyler and Steph are tying the knot in June. It’s starting to get real. I’m not much of a shopper, or a dress person, or a wedding person for that matter. To be brutally honest, I go to them when I have to but other than that yeah, I just send a gift. I’m actually excited about this one. I love the color scheme they have decided on. The venue is beautiful. They are having it at the perfect time of year. How do you decide what to wear? I’m a Pinterest and Google person so of course I’ve searched “mother of the bride/groom” dresses. Why do all the people in these pictures look old? I’m not old, couldn’t they find some middle aged people to model these dresses so I don’t feel like I’m dressing up like a grandma (pardon me to all the current grandmas out there, some of you don’t have your typical “grandma” attire). Just go ahead and mark your calendars because I’m sure you will get tired of seeing pictures from my by the end of June. Honestly, you’re probably always tired of seeing pictures from me, I tend to take a lot and I don’t see that changing anytime in the future. And no, I won’t be that person at a wedding with my phone/camera out snapping pictures instead of enjoying the moment. Now before and after, I can’t promise anything.
Speaking of Grandmas, we went and bought baby things for a baby shower this last weekend (not Tyler and Steph’s). I was excited looking at all the little things and picking stuff out. And it’s a boy (that will have Kaleb’s middle name) so it brought back lots of memories and man have they come out with some cool stuff in the last 17 years. But back to my story. We go to check out and the lady checking us out starts ringing stuff up and goes “Oh, are you going to be grandparents?” WHAT!!!!! I’m only 43. Yes, I’d love to be a grandparent and I’m old enough to be a grandparent, but I’m still young enough to be having kids also (granted she could probably tell I wasn’t pregnant) but still. First the dresses making me feel like I’m getting old. Then the lady at Walmart thinks I’m a grandma. Where did my youth go???? What happened to getting carded when I ordered an alcoholic beverage? I’ve aged in these last 4 months, or maybe I had aged before then and just somehow not noticed!!! Apparently I need my hair colored.
Back to the wedding. It’s nice with Steph being in town during the week this semester. We’re able to see her a little more often than we get to see the other boys. 4 1/2 months from now she’ll be our daughter-in-law. I hope I can be 1/2 the mother-in-law that mine is to me. With her and Tyler dating for 6 + years it’s like she’s been part of the family for a while. But for 21 almost 22 years I’ve been the only “girl” in the family. It will be different, a good kind of different, actually having another female at family functions. We will get used to Tyler not being with us all the time. Things will change. That made our vacation over Christmas a little more special. I realized while we were there that this might be the last time for Tyler to be a “kid” during a vacation. He’ll be an old married man from now on. Hopefully we have the kind of relationship I have with my in-laws now. We love to vacation together. At least from our side of it we love it, hopefully they do too. They keep inviting us so I think that’s a good sign. This time next year Tyler will be out of school, hopefully have a teaching position and will be supporting his family. Where has the time gone? Now is the time we find out if we did it right. The first one getting married from all our boys. I pray they work together as a couple to make sound decisions for their life. And invest in their marriage. It isn’t easy, but it’s worth it to be married to your best friend. So to Tyler and Steph, I’m proud of you. I love you guys and can’t wait to see what the future holds for the two of you.
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