Tonight my parents opened their house so that the kids best friends from Branson could come over. It was so great to be together with good dear friends. The Blackwell family and the Pierson family came over and it was the best four hours we could have asked for! Twelve kids bouncing on the trampoline and playing together. . .the laughter was so loud but in the most wonderful way imaginable! I miss friendships like those that were in this house tonight! Two of my dearest friends are the mothers of my kids friends and that made the time all the more sweet! It was a great night of laughter and just being known and loved. I think it was refreshing for all of us (even though there were a few teary goodbyes)! What a night! Thanks, Kelly and Melissa for bringing your kids over! Thanks GoGo and Pops for letting us invade your home. Tonight was a TEN!
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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