Oh my! We had the most fantastic day on the mountain today. . .maybe the most fantastic day ever! The weather was absolutely perfect and we were together with the kids and Andy was with us and we had tons of friends. . .it was a perfect day! I am so thankful that we get to live here so that our weekends can be like a vacation every time they come around! I'm also so thankful that Andy is home every single weekend for the next three months and he will get to snowboard with us each time! Yipee! (Hays wasn't with us because he was practicing with the team, but we stalked him on the half pipe a couple of times and it felt like we were all together just for those moments!)
Andy proposed during a curtain call of Me and My Girl , a musical in which he played an old man who went most of his life without telling the woman he loved that he loved her... Twenty-three years ago today Andy asked me to marry him. . . . he was my best friend and I thought he was the love of my life. Should I have said no? I don't know how many times I have now been asked a version of that question in the past couple of years and I cannot count the number of times I have asked myself that question over the past decade, but it is a dumb question with no great answer. If I would have said no 23 years ago, I would have saved myself from so many tears and so much pain, but I would have missed so much laughter and so many exciting firsts and I would be such a different person. . . . Because of this day, 23 years ago, I am who I am and I have so much to be thankful for. Because of this day, 23 years ago, I have five of the best kids on the planet. They are t
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