Wedded Bliss

September 28, 2009

This past weekend we went to our friends’ wedding.  I couldn’t help reminiscing about the days, not so long ago, of Adam and my nuptials.  That day was such a wonderful day!  For the first couple of years our house was shrine to the fact we got married; pictures everywhere, pretty gifts decorated our home, etc.  In recent years something changed.  Pictures were moved, or taken down.  Gorgeous presents have been relocated or boxed up.  Our house is no longer a shrine to our exchange of vows, rather our investment in Fisher Price.  Long ago I would look at pictures of my friends’ parents’ wedding and wonder how did such a special day become a faded picture in your dining room?  How did a magical representation of the love you share with your spouse become a distant memory of a day that only falls in the top ten best days of your life?!?  There’s only one answer to that…DREW!  Everyone always says cliche things about parenthood.  You’ll never understand the enormity of parenthood until you embark on it, but it’s TRUE!!  Our wedding was a great day in so many ways.  For one, all the people we cared most about in this world came together to celebrate the love we share for each other!  Wow, it doesn’t get better than that!  Secondly, everyone was acknowledging that Adam and I were committing to share our lives together.  Pretty neat!  Also, it was a great party!  But something even bigger than that is taking that love that we share for each other and creating a human being!  How is that even possible?!?  I clearly know about the birds and the bees and everything, don’t get me wrong.  Once you have this little offspring that is half of each of you, the love you share with your significant other goes to a dimension that you never knew existed before.  The joy, concern and pride you have for that 25 pound miniature person outshines anything you had ever imagined.  And with that comes redecorating.  Taking all your fragile (beautiful) wedding gifts and putting them away.  Displaying in the most prominent of places those adorable and insanely expensive baby pictures to document every three months of your child’s life.  And back in the corner of the dining room, your wedding photos.  It’s not that it wasn’t amazing or special but it’s just that in the scheme of things it becomes less amazing and less special than that miniature person that is a souvenir of the what that big day represented.

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