....love brings you a fairy tale ....

I went to my daughter’s today to deliver Easter things – a Winnie The Pooh with Tigger prominent gift bag with trinkets, colored eggs, candy for all, and a candle for her. The candle’s kind of a ‘for you’ gift, but Easter seemed as good a time as any to give it. It’s more holder than candle, square with a tea light inset on top, and in nice lettering it says: “Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life…love brings you a fairy tale.” Reaction: “I LOVE that candle!! I saw it and thought about getting it but never did.. Thank you meema!!!!!! (Love Meema too!)”
She’s getting married in a couple of months. Yes, this is the same daughter who for years shared my philosophy (in fact she coined the phrase) “Men are fine as long as they know what ‘thank you-get out’ means”. Yeah, I’m not big on ‘relationships’ any more. Neither was she, for a long time. It took Geoff a long time to talk her in to getting married. Then he was the one who ‘strayed’. She’s had a couple of guys over the 13 years since he left, but nothing stuck. There was one who several of us thought might eventually become a contender, but before that happened, along came her fairy tale. Every now and then she’d talk about different ones of her neighbors in the trailer park she lived in, a couple across the street with two little girls no more or less than any others. Then she mentioned that the neighbor’s wife left them. Then she was going to the neighbor’s now and then for a beer. Nothing unforeseen in that. Then the neighbor bought a house and she was helping him move. Nothing unforeseen in that either, we’re like that. Then, in the middle of the move, the neighbor turned to his daughters and said ‘Sara’s my girlfriend now’ – to which she said ‘Did ya want to tell Sara about that?’ And then she was moved in, and then came to my house one day and said ‘I figured I better tell you before you hear it on the street somewhere’ and held out her left hand with a diamond on it. Who’d’a thunk?! So they’re getting married July 9. She says he treats her better than any man ever has, and you can’t ask for more than that for your daughter. They seem to need each other. Their fairy tale is giving them a chance to live happily ever after.