Engaged!
04 October 2009Posted by Mother Faerie @ Sunday, October 04, 2009 Meredith and I are engaged! Today! I'm sure you all want to know more about her: She's a bit shorter than me (only an inch), on the blonder side, and incredible blue eyes. She's 41, incredibly smart and beautiful. Loyal, HONEST to herself and others, and is always excelling to make a difference in the lives of children (which I love). She's a master level psychologist. She currently works in foster care case management/ social worker placing children for permanency. She is studying for her license. She has no children of her own, but she loves my girls and my girls love her. She's great with them, she really is. They adore her, hang off her, she reads them stories at bedtime, hangs out with them and talks about their interests with them. She looks forward to joining family game nights and us growing as a family and adding to our brood (only by one or two more) when the time is right, through adoption.
We plan on getting married in Iowa with a few friends and family as witnesses. We will have a legal marriage that binds our love :) We plan on the end of July so that we have a decent length engagement as our relationship is still fresh and developing, although we know we share a lot of the same morals, beliefs, interests, and understanding of how we want our relationship to work on love, trust, honesty and always always communication. We then will have a reception in Kansas City at another date in July or early August for the rest of our family and friends, as it will not be pleasant for so many to commute 3 hrs to our wedding site. : / We then plan on going to the women's musical festival (camping!) in Michigan as our honeymoon in August.
We have engagement rings on order. They are nontraditional engagement rings as neither of us really like gold or flashy diamonds. They are inscribed with our names and will contain an emerald and an amethyst as they are our favorite stones. The emerald is Mere's birth stone, the purple because it's my favorite stone and looks better with the emerald than my birth stone.
We are very excited and have appreciated the love and support from our families and friends. It's been a very deep, sincere, loving 2 months since we've met and it does seem fast, but we truly believe that we have met at the right time in our lives for our relationship to be successful. We've been through a lot in the last two months emotionally that proves we can be there for each other in a long term committed relationship. We've had three deaths and services, we've had good news and bad news, we've been through the worse flu ourselves and the kids (not to mention Mak's hospitalization for pancreatitis) and Hana's high temp with her low WBC counts/neutropenia. She accepts me for who I am, with my flaws and past. She accepts my children for who they are, their own personal difficulties and challenges, and altogether our biggest supporter.
I love you, Mere, and thanks for extending your love to my children and extending your request of marriage. I am honored.
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