Recently my son Jared proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lyndsey, and she said yes.
None of this was a surprise to us. It was eventually going to happen and was just a matter of when.
Lyndsey and Jared have been together for nearly eight years. They went to the same high school but didn't become a couple until the summer after graduation. As I often say, she is as much a member of our family as any of our kids, as Elissa's boyfriend Mark, or as Chloe's husband Michael.
Now it becomes legal.
Whenever this wedding occurs, it will be the first involving one of our kids. Chloe and Michael have been hitched for 5 1/2 years, but they never had an actual wedding (though not for lack of trying).
They were married by a judge back in October 2019, in part because Chloe was beginning her academic research career and wanted to change her name before she began publishing. This was to maintain consistency and avoid any confusion further down the line.
Their plan was to have a formal wedding in June 2020, but you might remember a little pandemic that popped up a few months prior to that, causing them to push the wedding to October 2020.
That little pandemic refused to cooperate, though, and eventually their wedding was cancelled altogether.
So Jared and Lyndsey's big day will be Terry's and my first time as parents of the groom/bride.
As I write this, we don't yet have a date or a location for that wedding. But whenever it is, it's going to be quite the shindig, I'm sure. These kids have a large army of family and friends who love them and want to be there when they tie the knot.
I can't wait. It's not often I get to show off my Hokey Pokey AND Chicken Dance skills in the same night.
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