Feb, 17, 2009

The day I Knew You’d Be Mah Baby Daddy

You already know this. I’ve said it at least a dozen times. But this is for our children and our grandchildren. One day they will ask the question, “How did you know he was ‘The Right One’?” I will point to this section of our memoirs and say, “Here.”

Kids? listen up.

I’m sure I’ve told you the history of us. How your dad and I dated in High School as insecure young people. I’m sure the love we had in our hearts was real but the maturity of that love was years and years away. My bad poetry and his creative cards are only a snippet of what we would become. Who we really were.

Where we are today.

It wasn’t the six years we spent apart as best friends, or the hour-long phone conversations nearly every night while I lived in Texas that year, or the six plane tickets I purchased to come visit your Dad before we began dating again. It wasn’t the fact that he is the only person I can spend seven days in a row with and still want to be around. 

No, it was that time we went roller-blading with your cousin Danielle. That day I knew I’d marry him and have his babies.

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Danielle was probably 8 at the time.  (The same age your Aunt Kim was when he would give her piggy back rides while waiting for me to be ready for our date in High School.) I was living with your Great Aunt and Uncle while looking for an apartment in Portland, having recently moved back from Texas to be closer to your dad. We took Danielle to the park down the street to let her roller-blade with us. She was so excited, she made your dad a necklace. It was too tight and had a lovely purple star right in the middle that stuck out of his neck nearly choking him. But he wore it all day.

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It was while I watched your dad take my cousin around the park on her roller-blades, that star sticking right out of his neck that I knew: I would have his babies. I would have children with this man, my best friend, and one day he would wear the necklace our daughter put on him.

And I was right.

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