we are back...

...and i am exhausted. i am not an energy drink kind of person but today i might be. if anyone out there has a suggestion, let me know. i am making a bee-line for the store at 2 this afternoon.

back to the weekend. the wedding was so nice. i have to say the toast of the night that just about had me falling out of the chair came from terry's cousin katie as she said- "holly, welcome to this half (with a huge hand gesture) of the room." ha! it was priceless and so, so true. we tingles, kracks, holbrooks, ect...took up one whole half of the room.

and as always, the tingles, kracks, holbrooks and rest of the wedding party did a fine, fine job of decorating the get-away car. no one would ever have to guess that that car was filled with some newlywed love.

but this morning, fresh off wedding festivities, as i was driving into work a car passes me. it had lots of decorations and tons of writing. i kind of smiled thinking some other family was also celebrating a sweet couple...until...i looked a little closer...and was appauled to see that the writing had nothing to do with newlyweds. no, this decoration had everything to do with newly divorced. i couldn't get up there fast enough to take a picture but i promise you, the owner of this car was 100% celebrating and 100% annoucing to all of I-59 that they were in fact divorced and proud of it.

how stinking sad. my heart was broken. when i entered marriage, there was no hint of divorce being an option. i would give everything i absolutely had to terry and our life - and if something went wrong i would do everything in my power to fix it. everything and anything. i think today and seeing that car, i am reminded to pray for every married couple i am proud to know. to pray for their day to day life. to pray for their home and their children. and pray that no matter what happens, they will fight for one another and in the end remember why they fell in love in the first place.