Yesterday I went to a wedding here. A very unique place that reminded me of a maze. Lots of stairs. But a nice place for a wedding I decided.
My friend Katie Herlihy (but now Kovac) who chose the place for her wedding made a good choice. I liked it. It was beautiful. Wedding vows exchanged on a rooftop with the background of sailboats on Lake Michigan. Not much beats that in my book.
My book? My day... Now wait a minute! Why is it that as a single woman going to weddings always makes you "dream"? I'm just hopelessly romantic I guess. And here's another question. Do single men do the same thing? I'll wonder until someone answers; so do the favor if you're a male and let me know. Yesterday I came face to face with something I have been working out for a while - something I never really expected. I think my hopeless romantic side will all too soon fade into oblivion. She's slipping slowing away. Not for lack of romance (though indeed I'm in need) but the reminders were there again. The reasons I’m less impressed. The reasons I'm beginning to think I’m going to be hard “sweep off my feet”. As I attend more of them or maybe just as I get older, I'm finding maybe I'm simply less impressed by all the glitz and glitter of weddings. The dresses, tuxes, flowers, crowds, and all the hoopla. It's just not me. And so I've decided: if ever that day does arrive for me it is going to be something different. Incredibly different. Not a thought I first had there, but being in that atmosphere yesterday at the Milwaukee County War Memorial certainly helped confirm that decision.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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