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Week 40:

This blessing took place the week of June 29th – July 5th

 A few weeks ago I made Oscar a perfect photo book to celebrate our 4 years of marriage. This week the book came in the mail I was so excited to show Oscar and celebrate our history together. Only thing is we are talking about me and I've told you all this before, but like most things I do this evolved into an ordeal instead of what it really was a simple gesture of love. Turns out my perfect photo book wasn't so perfect. I made a few minor errors…

For starters I put the wrong anniversary date. For some of you I realize this is just plain crazy, how could a woman forget her anniversary? I didn't forget our anniversary I just simply put the wrong month… Thankfully, I'm married to a man who thinks it's cute I put the wrong month. Plus if any of you saw this book none of you would've even known it was wrong. We had a good laugh about the mistake continued to reminisce, and then we get to the last page of the book and found another mistake. Oops! Oscar and I have a song that we love and we even played it at our wedding. My book was going to be extra special because I quoted some of the lyrics from our song… Only this time I quoted them wrong. Again we have a good laugh and joke about how silly I am. Then we look at the back cover where I've made a collage of pictures of us and Eli, only to discover one of the pictures is actually of our nephew JD not Eli! GEEZ!
 
At this point I'm an emotional mess. Here I was trying to capture our life together and do something incredibly sweet for my husband, only to have it ruined by not 1 or 2 but by 3 different mistakes!!!!

Thankfully I'm married to a wonderful man who absolutely loves the book, even the mistakes. He says it captures our life perfectly. You see I'm a quirky person and a lot like my mom. This is totally something my mom would've done. I rushed to get the book finished, and made a few errors. I know we got married in June not in July. I know the correct lyrics to our song. And just like any of my other nieces or nephews I love JD as if he were my own son. These are the reasons my husband loves me and picked me to be his wife. I help make our adventure together a little more adventuress! Just like my mom did for my dad and my siblings and me.  

It turns out me blessing my husband resulted in him blessing me. He showed me that even though my mom is gone her legacy, even the goofiness, lives on in me. If I have to be like anyone I'm glad it's her. She was the best person, the best daughter, the best wife, the best sister, the best friend, and by far the best mom. I'm honored to be just like her!

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