After 100 years.
I’m not really good at blog challenges. But I shall attempt again sometime soon. 
Today, I got two new e-mails that made my day.
Is this THE Hayley DiMarco?
YES!!!! WAAAAHHH!
One of my favorite authors, Hayley Dimarco, is following me on Pinterest. Woooowww! I’m honored.
This afternoon, I got an e-mail from my soon-to-be mother-in-law. I was asking her some of the traditions of the family that she might want us to include in our wedding. I also told her that her ideas are very welcome and I want their family to be involve in anyway that they can. I was waiting for list of things that she has in mind specially that her eldest son is about to get married, instead I got this:
Hi Ivy, Something old, something new and something borrowed. That is the tradition for a bride here. I don’t know if that is true in your country. But in my opinion those things are not important. To be married in the eyes of God is all that matters. Marriage is a very delicate thing. You have to be willing to put a lot of work into it if you want to grow old together. There will always be challenges Ivy. Marriage is taken very lightly in the times that we are living in. If you and Angel want this forever, you must work very hard for it. Nothing worth while comes easy. Eventually it will not be about you and Angel only, then comes the little ones, which in itself is a tremendous responsibility. The work is never over. Marriage is a beautiful thing but it can turn out to be a painful thing if we don’t work on it on a daily basis with our Lord in our lives. Other then that I am still recovering. My doctor tells me it will take at least 3 months. As far as a family member attending the wedding, that remains to be unseen. As much as that is something we would love, it is very expensive and at this time we don’t know. Everyone in this family is living from week to week. Overall the important thing is that you and Angel to marry in the eyes of our LORD. Love, Talk to you soon! Mom
I was crying when I finished reading her e-mail. I know that my Mom Carmen is an extraordinary woman because together with dad, they raised the super-wonderful godly man (yes, handsome too. haha.) that I’m about to marry. Her email to me made me feel more loved and welcomed in their family with or without their physical presence when the fiance’ and I finally get married.
They say that a wedding is not just a union of two individuals but two families as well. I’m blessed that I will be a part of their wonderful family and like an icing on a cake, I’ll have Mom Carmen for a mother-in-law.
