Chris and Jenni

Before you start to thinking, “wow, Jenni is quite elated to title this post ‘The Perfect Bride’ and then post a picture of herself!” hear me out. This is actually a story about my son, he’s a dreamer.

The other morning, Aidan and Guenna and I were laying in bed, they had woken up a little too early and Guenna was a little grouchy so we all went back into my bed in order to for Guenna and the rest of us to have a much better day. Aidan of course wasn’t sleepy, and feeling very talkative like normal. He was looking up on the wall in our bedroom, at a picture of Chris and I on our wedding day. It’s a whimsical photograph of the two of us in our wedding clothes, him looking at me and me looking dreamily at the camera, but obviously thinking about his eyes on me, and not really thinking about the camera at all. Aidan laid there for a few moments looking at the photo, then he started thinking outloud, I say thinking because I could tell he was in one of those dreamy moods. He started talking about his “bride” as he called her.

“When my bride and I get married, she will have a long white dress that is so long that she almost trips over it when she walks…All brides are beautiful in their white dress…( I was responding to him, but it was almost as if I wasn’t there, he was just sort of thinking out loud)…my bride is going to be beautiful, she is going to have long white gloves and a crown…you know, it’s too bad you can’t marry your sister, because Guenna would make the perfect bride. Sigh.”

What I find interesting is that the bride he described looked an awful lot like the picture of his mommy on the wall :) And in spite of all the fighting and arguing that Guenna and Aidan do, I’m so glad that he thinks she would make a perfect bride. He has a lot of his daddy in him. I may have looked beautiful on my wedding day, but when the rubber meets the road, we fight sometimes and he loves me through it. And we come out stronger on the other side. One day Aidan will realize that there are other “possibilities” outside of our family:)  I’m glad that he hasn’t put a name to his “perfect bride” yet. The day is coming just around the corner. I think he is going to make the perfect husband one day too!

Trackback URI | Comments RSS