Firsts!

I've had a lot of Firsts the past 2 years...and I'll write about that, but for right now, this minute, this is another one! I've never had a blog...didn't even know what one was until about a year ago and then didn't really get it until a friend's husband got very ill and kept everyone up-to-date by blogging. My daughter started to blog and the rest is history. Here I am, trying to keep up with the world electronically, as it quickly passes me by.

I'm not sure where to start and what exactly to say, but I've never been known to stay quiet for long so I'm sure I'll think of something! In fact, I have a very dear friend who says I can talk to a tree, but that's another post for another day!! So, this shouldn't be too difficult for me.

I think I'd like to start by saying that I miss my sweetheart, Gordon Arthur McWain, more than I ever knew it was possible to miss someone and it's been 1 year and 5 months since he passed away. I've known many widows in my life, but they were generally elderly and I was sure there was grief for a time, but thought they got past it in a year or so. Well, let's just say I received an education about losing someone you love that you have spent many years (35 to be exact) with, working together to get that right combination of love, mischief, work, cooperation, consideration, fun, and communication to make a marriage that really works. Sometimes it takes many years of being married to make this all happen. That was the case with Gordon & I. We started with so many differences that it was extra hard to get to the place where we felt like finally...we could say we made it through the worst of times... needless to say, we had no idea of the trial that would come into our lives at the young age of 54. That's when we thought life was just starting to get good!

Our beautiful daughter, Tami, had lived in our basement apt for about 10 years; which was great for parents with an only child!! She had her independence and we had her close by. So, it had been the 3 Musketeers for some time. Well, Tami thought we needed a 4th Musketeer to join our family. I'm not sure why! She went out searching. After perusing the guys at church, checking out websites, and looking especially lovely at work each day, she was coming up short!!! Here comes Aunt Sue to the rescue! She said her nephew would make a worthy Musketeer and so Tami went on her search for him over mountains and valleys to Colorado. As it turns out, Todd met all the qualifications and accepted the charge of having to ask for Tami's hand from her father. Todd handled it beautifully and before we knew it we were picking Todd out a feathered hat to join our band of Merry Men (oops....I guess that was Robin Hood) Anyway, there was a beautiful fairytale wedding that took place on Oct 7th, 2006. It was a perfect day, even the rain didn't taint it. Nothing could have marred the day that Todd joined our family and that Tami danced her last dance with her father.
Chapter Two to follow................