Weddings and births...
A little while ago I decided to write up a list of all the weddings I have attended in my life, and then got onto listing all the weddings I have heard about or seen pictures from (mostly through Facebook) within my circle of friends. This led into counting up the babies that have resulted from those marriages, and the current engagements I know about (I keep finding out about more!!!).
I have been to 20 weddings in my life (that I can recall), 12 of them in the last 5 years. I was a bridesmaid in 5 of them.
Here's the kicker... in addition to those attended, I have heard about 58 weddings in the last 5 years!!!!!! Two of them were same-sex marriages, which makes me super-happy. :-) Plus I know of 13 current engagements (really, I think everybody got the Obama-hopey disease and started doing happy things this year because we knew life would get better!!!!).
Out of the weddings I have attended or heard about in the last 5 years, there have been 25 babies born and there are 5 babies-in-progress at the moment. :-) There are 7 more little munchkins who have been born (or adopted!) into families I know (married more than 5 years ago), and five of them were born/adopted THIS YEAR!
I'm not sure why I wanted to write down all of these numbers, but there is an incredible joy that comes over me every time I think of it. There is so much happiness just within my own circle of people, so many new unions and births and life changes.
I love having so many reasons to celebrate!!
I have been to 20 weddings in my life (that I can recall), 12 of them in the last 5 years. I was a bridesmaid in 5 of them.
Here's the kicker... in addition to those attended, I have heard about 58 weddings in the last 5 years!!!!!! Two of them were same-sex marriages, which makes me super-happy. :-) Plus I know of 13 current engagements (really, I think everybody got the Obama-hopey disease and started doing happy things this year because we knew life would get better!!!!).
Out of the weddings I have attended or heard about in the last 5 years, there have been 25 babies born and there are 5 babies-in-progress at the moment. :-) There are 7 more little munchkins who have been born (or adopted!) into families I know (married more than 5 years ago), and five of them were born/adopted THIS YEAR!
I'm not sure why I wanted to write down all of these numbers, but there is an incredible joy that comes over me every time I think of it. There is so much happiness just within my own circle of people, so many new unions and births and life changes.
I love having so many reasons to celebrate!!