September 24, 2010

Daniel's Turn

Some 33 years ago, on the day I was born (October 29th, people--get ready, now!), I'm sure the Universe looked upon me and said, "Someday, this being will have beautiful daughters, and one of them will look like this:




I'm sure this caused great distress, because, well...I'm not this cute. :-9  "Who will help her bring all this loveliness to pass?" they must have wondered, searching high and low, past and future, until somebody showed up and asked, "How about this guy?"




"Wow!" they thought. "He's perfect!"  But one little voice of doubt piped up from the back, "Are you sure? Because he's going to have spend a few years looking like this,



and I'm not sure she'll be okay with that."  A slight ripple of laughter washed over the crowd, and quickly a solution was found: "We'll make sure they don't meet until after he grows out of that phase, and starts looking more like this:




And he will love her, and protect her, and annoy her, and forgive her, and hold her, and make her laugh, and give her a life sweeter than her bratty self deserves, and she will understand a comfort, and have an unfair advantage, that comes in knowing there is almost nothing she can do to make him stop loving her (I haven't figured out what quantifies the "almost," and I don't plan on finding out.).  And she will love him more than even she knows.

And it was exactly as it should be. 

Happy birthday, Daniel.  I love you.

4 comments:

Michelle said...

beautiful, funny post DoRe' - I love the old pictures.

And the phase! HA! I tell my DH it's a good thing we didn't meet in high school or college, otherwise I probably wouldn't have looked at him twice. :)

Happy birthday to your sweet husband. Good for him for scoring a woman like you! :)

Hugs,
Michelle

Keala C. said...

Sissy - I absolutely LOVE these birthday posts!!!! What an amazing tribute to your loved ones, and so engaging/funny/touching to read. :) What a beautiful tale about your destined life with Daniel. You two are perfect together, perfect for each other, and I am so happy you found one another. Hope his birthday was a blast - and I LOVE YOU!

Sandra Ramey said...

Sweet...very sweet~

Kale Recaido said...

How did I not see this one!? Awesome post sis! Love ya.

PS: There are no links to comment on Kiana's blogs(?)