Tuesday, November 17, 2009

On the Road Again--Pittsburgh!

So I’ll be posting from the road for a day or two because I’m going to be visiting my son and his fiancé in Pittsburgh. I love Pittsburgh, but I adore my son and his fiancé more. I love being able to call her his fiancé now—after five years of thinking ‘girlfriend’ sounded too much like a high school relationship. I had come to think of her as my ‘de facto daughter-in-law’, and since I tend to make everything into an acronym (the blog is FITNY to me) I viewed her as my daffodil. (I was, however, savvy enough to keep this to myself.)

This was cool (and nerdy, I know—DUH! How many times must I tell you?) for several reasons.

1. I love daffodils. They are harbingers of spring. They are beautiful and graceful and bright. They represent happiness and hope.

2. I love this young woman. Yes, she is lovely and smart and sweet and caring. She is hard-working, accomplished, respected and highly principled. She has a social conscience and acts on it. And beyond all that, she adores my son, who adores her just as much, and she makes him happy. Which is really all a momma could want for her son. At least this momma.

3. I like playing dopey little word games. They amuse me. I love the Will Shortz puzzle segment on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday. Check it out.

Back to the subject: Wedding coming up in May 2010! Be there or be square—or in my case, be both. I’ll be the happiest mother of the groom (MOG) you ever saw!

5 comments:

  1. Let me just say, you have no idea how relieving it is to have a mother-in-law who likes you.. I was so worried that mine wouldn't like me, but she adores me! Especially since all she had were boys. :)

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  2. She is one lucky girl to have such a loving MIL. I was lucky too. My MIL and ex MIL are both fantastic!

    Congrats on the upcoming wedding! Have a good visit.

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  3. Oh how very very nice! I wish them MUCH happily ever after! Congratulations MOG!!!

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  4. You will make a great MIL. I wish you were mine.

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  5. I wish them MUCH happily ever after! Congratulations.

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