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A New Member of My Family - - -






Welcome Drew Rustie Rolfe!!

Thursday morning, I got a call from my son. Now, it's no secret that my baby boy is extremely special to me; he's got a huge hunk of my heart!! Anyway, when he called me Thursday he asked me if I was sitting down - to which I said I wasn't (it's not a good sign when someone asks you that and I really was sitting down, but I was kind of frightened). Then he told me to sit down. He then proceeded to tell me that he had asked his girlfriend to marry him and she said YES (why anyone would consider saying no is completely beyond me). He had given her the ring that he had bought for her to signify the special event. After congratulating him for just a second, I went into mom mode and started lecturing him about stuff I had already said to him, over and over and over and over and over before. That was not a very nice thing for me to do, because I had kind of stolen his happy thunder and I really feel kind of horrible about that. His sister kind of slapped me around a bit to let me know that I did a very dumb thing - because I should have just been down right happy for them and I am very happy for them. These two are scary, disgusting, crazy in love - and I love to see my baby boy so very happy.

There are no real formal plans at this point (that I am aware of), they are trying to do a little planning. However, I want my son to know that he has found a beautiful young woman to spend his life with and I can't wait to see what they make of their lives. I also want Rustie to know that she is marrying the most awesome man in the world; he is the most sensitive, strong, caring, loving, funny, silly, crazy, smart, amazing, proud, considerate, teasing, sweet, happy guy there is. However, she also needs to know he can be cranky, annoying, ornery and depressed at times and that makes him no fun to be around (but, ya just have to deal with it to get the great qualities described before that).

I love you both and I'm so happy you are letting me share this special and happy time of your lives.

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  1. NatalieJuly 18, 2010 at 10:07 PM

    Congrats. Now you really are going to be an "empty nester".

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  2. UnknownJuly 19, 2010 at 2:48 PM

    Hooray!!! I'm excited for the neew addition to your family which will bring more new additions! 80)Wow there's gonna be alot of adding goin on!!! 80)

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