CJ asked for us to post a weding picture. This is not the best, but what was on the computer. I have since lost this picture and another one of my sister and I from the wedding.
Anyway, I am in the wedding dress, mom in the middle and my sister on the left. I would like to go on and on about what a great time the wedding was and blah blah blah. But I can’t. Although I would take the most disasterous of weddings if it would prevent the tragic events that occured the rest of the year. I could write post after post about 1992. The fuckin’ year from hell and took me about 10 years to recover from. I am dealing w. some stuff right now, but 1992 is my worst year of my life. I guess I will just bullet the highlights:
~3 days before wedding find out I am pregnant.
~Dh & I fight thru the whole wedding.
~ SIL tells filthy racist jokes to wedding party, even the men are embrassed.
~SIL tells DH we cannot announce pregnancy, ‘cuz her kid is 4. I was so pissed!
~ Sisters baby has uncontrolable diarrhea all over restaurant bathroom.
~Go to Cancun. Get sick. Hate Mexico.
~Get fired, for being out on bedrest for a couple weeks.
~Sister comes to visit on DH’s bday 8/22. Asks if anything happens to her, will we take care of my niece. Of course.
~Sister is in car accident day before daughters 1st bday, 8/27. 3 months after my wedding. about 4 months pregnant
~brain damage. She never wakes up. Dies 8/31. 3 days after daughter’s first bday
~ DH & I become immediate parents.
~Family decision not to send Niece back to father in CA. They were getting divorced. He was not fit to raise the kids he had, nevermind a baby.
~Court date after court date. Finally, my parents are granted custody.
~ somewhere in there, I bought a house
~moved in the week before Xmas, 8 months pregnant
~cry all the time.
~Finally, my son is born two weeks late in Feb, 1993. I end up staying in the hospital for 10 days due to complications.
Those are the highlights. Are you exhausted yet just one of those events would make a loonnngg post.
shit. no wonder why it took you a while to post this! PS — I soooooo want to go blueberry picking!
Wait a minute…you say that I inspire you? I think you are the one to admire here! What a will you have had to deal with all of this!
Wow!!! What a crazy year you had! How are you still sane?!
Btw, Michele sent me!
Ah, how gorgeous were you? You looked like a Queen!
holy crap, I would have been cryin all the time too!
Wow! What a wedding, and what a year. I’m so very sorry about your sister. Do you ever think she thought she’d died so soon after asking you?
My sister and her husband got sick in Mexico on their honeymoon, too. Spent most of it puking.
Quite a story.
Here via Michele, today.
Holy crap!! There are days when I think my life is crazy, then I hear someone else’s story. I’m here via Michele today and am in awe of your resolve.
Its amazing how we keep our cool…sorry about sis, hope things got better for you