Monday, May 22, 2006

Well here goes.......????? I am clue less when it comes to this stuff
OK ......I love to post on my best friend of 25+ yrsblog & have been thinking,so many these days are Blogging I may try my hand at it. If any og you have read my posts "Stephie" in the past you will see spelling is not the best attribute I possess. There could be worse things in life I am sure. I hope that I am veiwed as a person who loves, and cares forothers and puts 110% in what ever I am doing at that given moment. I think my biggest accomplishment in life is being a loving and faithful wife and most of all a diehard devoted mother. I think I am going to be down the line the type of mother that will just die when the "big day" comes for the boys to "leave the nest". I have been a mom to them for all of my adult life. I only knew @two years of adulthood without a husband or children. Don't get me wrong I LOVE that I have been blessed with this life but I wonder 5-10 years from know am I going to die inside without my boys by my side all the time? It all started in December of 1990, I met Michael for the first time personally. I used to look at him from afar as he took my bank transaction when I was a mear highschool girl cashing one of my 3 paychecks. Yes I said "3". I can not be faulted for not being a hardworker or go getter. I had to pay for my own car and my own things and most of all High School, Pope John XXIII, a place I begged to go and NEEDED to go. Yes they wanted to send me for free to East Boston High but how could a Catholic School girl of 8 years go to the "Big Bad Eastie?". Sorry to get off track, So as I would cash my pay I would look at this "older guy" and say what a cute stomach he has...Yes a cute stomach. A teller is viewed from the waist up. Yes he had awesome hair dark and feathered oh so 80's and I loved how he dressed. I always would think he is "way too old". I knew of his really cute brother that was my age and had a debate with myself on who was cutest. Well we know in the end who won that contest. Not only did he have a put together look and a go getter way about him he was the nicest guy ever. But he was "old". When you are in 12th grade and your bank teller is in his 5th year at Northeastern University that is OLDER........Am I right? I bet I would freak if I has a daughter and she was like hey see my boyfriend he is graduating too.......COLLEGE!!!!!UGH.......Well to make a long story longer...hehehehehe We met around Christmas and had lots of friends and fun on New Years Eve of 1991. Yeah my boyfriend SMACK at the time had a nice time with the gang too....Opps...forgot to mention....yup there was someone in the picture........soon to be put because it was too much to handle the redneck person he was. So in May of '91 we started to see eachother often, lunch dates, walks in parks "just friends" and then came the kiss. No guy ever asked to kiss me so this was like being on a cloud. He was the sweetest most romantic boy ever. So we go from May to Christmas....yes 7 months "will you be my wife and spend all of your days with me" was the most special thing to be said on the eve of Christmas Day. He said right after New Years we are looking to buy a house? House? what? we are like 20 and 24 who buys a house at that age...well someone who is the biggest saver EVER.........He is a quiet as I am peppy, he is as thrifty as I am in the market to spend the money(Normie would beg to differ, she sees me as also being very smart with money, I really am not giving myself enough credit I really am not bad with $ just not as tight as Michael). So we buy a house rent it out for the year and 4 months we are planning the wedding. Make lots of money to pay the mortgage and save to re-had this Brady Bunch decor of a house and have time to fall deeper in love. We made our commitment on April 26th 1992.....I thought I wanted to have a Feb. Wedding but one, I HATE winter and two I would not even be legal to drink....How funny would that be "no do not serve the bride she is not legal yet" >>>>and not prego either.Wow an Eastie girl at 21 and not getting married because she has too.....Now that's different. So we had our Lombardos wedding, if you know Eastie you know Lombardos.....We got a hugh discount because he worked there part time yes three jobs for him 2.5 for me.........And we still got to see eachother. I will write ALL about the wedding in a future Blog...There (of course) is a story behind that. SO we have the ARUBA honeymoon and get back. Well there came a day early June when I made the call to Normie....."Normie, are you sitting down? We are having a baby"...Well she was the phone call I was scared to make...really she was.......I am thinking she is going to think I am crazy off the wall too soon...ect........So it all sunk in and this is what we were to do I know we were blessed early to have these boys b/c we could "grow-up" with them. Funny thing my son Stephen who is now 13 jokes at how old his parents are....OK Stephen do you realize I had you 4 days before my 22nd bithday. yes 4 days...we even forgot it was my bithday the week we came home with him because he was the only thing that mattered at the time. If it wasn't for my mother in law to call and wish me a Happy B-Day I would of forgot all together. As for Michael, we are .........celebrating 14 fun filled,fast ,loving wonderful years together and beat the odds of "you marry young and split up young" ...Well that is not us. We will be well under 50 when we celebrate our 25th Aniversary. Like all happily married couples we plan to grow old together(he will be older first hehehehe) and still think we look like young whipper snappers. I have been told by a few people I do look younger than he does a bit younger I think that is b/c of his deep black (no longer feathered) hair has gone salt and pepper. It is a great look on him so distiquished(so they say for men) and it as thick as the summer day is long. So with Michael by my side and Stephen and Ryan getting to their tween/teen years there is no other place I was meant to be but with them (no matter how young I am) and live out the days in a sleepy little town (almost w/ mayor status hehehehe) with my guys.............*****Even if I was legal or not I do not drink I have something about it that just never apealed to me and I am not at all in need of it*****So I was meant to be a mom of two and a proud wife of a man who commits to all that he does....By the way he is still at the same bank (hehehe) where he started as a teller in 1986. Yup 20 years with them and 14 years with me. No he moved up the ladder, VP Mtg. Operations...So if you have your loan with EBSB he may audit you ..make sure you pay the morgage,,,,,hehehehehe
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