Happy Birthday My Michael Jan 14, 1958 Miss you. This is the time of year I feel ‘still’ I guess is a good word for it. Today is my late husband’s birthday. Jan 14 and he would be 57 living yrs old today. All my memory dates and reminders come in Dec and January so I’m very still these months in reflection and knowing GOD as the Psalm goes. I posted the song below. I am still, just looking back where I’ve been, how much Ive learned and/or accomplished and try and remember people I dont remember. lol. . i remember Januarys. I grin Every time I think how Michael and I pulled off the BEST KEPT SECRET EVER for 23yrs and Im still rememberingl as if yesterday. Jan 9 1982 was “The REAL date” Michael and I got married in Vegas. We just up and took off along with 2 of my besties Kathy Bumer and Martie Acton for witnesses. Our families both lived out of state and had no idea we were even seeing anyone let alone seriously. We decided not to tell our parents because we got scared of how they would react. Me mainly because because I’d only just met Michael maybe a whole 2 months ago. MIchael mainly because I was not Catholic and I guess its a no no for a catholic (practicing evangelical Christian tho) to marry a non-catholic. We came up with this brilliant idea to just say we were living together instead. (Like living in sin was SO much better). So we prepared our families our families over the following year we were getting married, knowing no one could afford to pay for or fly west, so we figured we could pull it off, On our 1year anniversary Jan 9 1983, Michael and I drove to Vegas, to the same chapel we got married at the year prior, and the chaplin just happened to be there, so he helped pose and take photos of us. They were so fabulous we mailed those out to everyone as our marraige dated Jan 9 1983, I look at 2 sets of wedding photos fondly at how they could not get more opposite in style/class and I remember it well. The sheer comedy and youthful drama kathy, Martie, Michael and i shared in a 1982 Made for REALITY TV wedding fiasco immediately followed with WTF did we just do moments right after the ceremony. I laugh alone looking at how the 1983 classy cover up photos are stylishly and totally professional they are representing a wedding. The bride and Groom are actually dressed for a wedding this time too. (I guess given a year and good paying jobs vs eloping broke 3 days after a proposal might explain the 1983 improvements over 1982 huh?) We almost made it to our 23rd and true anniverary. It was just before Christmas, Dec 3 2004 when Michael left this earth without warning. I shared our secret with our families that Michael and I were married a year longer then they believed at his funeral.There were a few chuckles and ‘atta boys’ and some surprised Ah HA’s at the news. I hoped it could be a lightened moment for everyone as I couldn’t be prouder for all he had accomplished and achievments we had made together and making it work against huge odds to begin not knowing each other well if at all but knowing it felt right. I was astonished to see our story got a write up in Las Vegas Herald about unusual weddings, I know God did a lot of safe keeping over Michael and for me and blessed us very much the entire time, So, I am stilled each December when Dec 3 catches me just a few weeks before every Christmas and Every year I recalculate from Dec 3, 2004 how many years has Michael been gone from this earth and been with God in Paradise? Boy, Time fleets so stealthly by. And today as i started out is actually the best day, and My start of the New year. Jan 14, Michael’s birthday. He would be 57 living years today. I eat cake and think the Happy Birthday Song for him. You know He was the first to ever throw me a birthday party ever in my life. I turned 30 and was a surprise party. I never forgot his birthday ever and that was a HUGE deal for me given I didn’t even know my own mother or father or brother’s birthdays. WE just never celebrated bcz it was too expensive or a hassle to organize and everyone in my family hated feeling obligated to reciprocate presents to anyone, so they fussed whenever anyone got any kind of gift except for Christmas, totally embarrassing. LMAO so sad but true. So I will Still and always remember Michaels birthday and today Im wishing him another heavenly earth birthday . I remember, but just now wondered if he still gets to look the same as he did when I last saw him alive? So, Aloof maybe I’ve seemed but Im not really it’s just being still as these couple months pass not in sadness but in stillness you get to knowing Gods got everything handled just like HE has planned and are supposed to be or being able to hear and make the adjustments He whispers to you as well
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:31:11 +0000
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