April 24

I love days of significance. I love having a brain that strives to remember weird "anniversaries".

For the purpose of today's post, lets focus on April 24, shall we?

April 24, 2010

In unrelated (or maybe related?) significance, it is my cousin Jocelyn's 3rd anniversary.  Happy anniversary to the Aalborgs!!  They had one of the most beautiful weddings of all time and I was so excited for their big day.  However, my attitude turned pretty sour at the reception when I got asked for the 90th time if I had a boyfriend, and the night ended with me hiding from the bouquet toss in the bathroom, trying not to cry.  Even watching my mom and aunt chug wine in the parking garage couldn't pull me out of the funk that was my single life.

April 24, 2011

Easter weekend 2011 had me hanging with my bff and her then-fiance, doing wedding planning things for their upcoming wedding in September.  We spent the weekend at her parents house drinking vodka tonics by the fire and dancing in the kitchen with her dad.  On Easter Sunday, (April 24!), her mom made us all Easter baskets and read us an old, innocent children's book that was later deemed racist.  We kept the vodka tonics coming, and later that afternoon, I received a message from this online dating site that I had a love-hate relationship with.  This message was from a "Mookalakahini" - first impression: Is he Hawaiian?  The first line of his message read "Will you marry me?" which was playing into some things I had said in my profile about not needing to get married tomorrow, just wanting to find a non-boring, non-annoying, non-loser.  After reading that line, my crazy brain had a field day!  "What if we actually did get married?? Wouldn't that be hilarious?!?"  We messaged a few times back and forth that day (I would hate to read the transcripts, as who knows how many VT's I had consumed at that point) but I do remember feeling so different about this "Mike" person.

April 24, 2012

This was my Facebook status:

"A year ago today I started talking to a man named Mike. Now, this Mike character and I are flying home from our honeymoon. Life can change so quickly!!!"

Enough said =)

April 24, 2013

Now, here I am, 9 months pregnant and ready to take on a new adventure with my friend Mike.  I could wish that I would go into labor today, just to keep the 4/24 fun going, but as some of you may know, this baby cannot arrive until May 1 otherwise this mama gets ZERO paid maternity leave.  Soooo...I "patiently" wait.

My body aches, my mind is restless with anxiety, but I can't help but be filled with jitterbugs today as I think about how one day can change your life in such an unexpected way.  Mike is the biggest blessing and even when he forces me to have conversations about hard things like benefits and bills and math in general, I still feel like I should be giving thanks constantly for getting to have him in my life.

Welp, to sum up: April 24, you're pretty cool.