FREAK OUT!!!!

My baby sister is engaged!!!

This actually happened a couple weeks ago, but this weekend was the first time I got to see her and my future brother in law since the big news broke.

We’ve been talking a wedding for the two of them for a little while now, so it wasn’t exactly a shock.  Which I think is good, I mean, I think I would want some sort of heads up before I get asked a question like that. :)  But, since we had been talking wedding for a while, I feel like on some level Maggie missed out on the fresh excitement and gravity of this amazing event.

You only get engaged once(hopefully) and it should be something special and celebratory.

Shortly after the news, I received a letter in the mail.  Maggie asked my to be her MOH, of course after she accepted my list of demands I said yes! :) (I really did have a list of demands--all in good fun).

All of this brings me to why I’m writing.  This weekend when I got to see them for the first time, I gave them hugs and said congratulations and welcome to the family, I looked at the ring and we talked weddings all weekend.  But I didn’t do the MOH freak out.  I didn’t jump up and down with her and scream when I saw the ring.  I didn’t tackle her the moment I saw her, like I always thought I would.

I didn’t realized I had failed my MOH duties of the initial freak out until hours later.  What was I thinking?  The truth is I’m so, so happy for them.  They are perfect for each other and I’m so excited to celebrate with them.  Steve and Mag have so many great things in their future and I can’t even tell you how excited I am to see that all play out.  I’m excited to get the phone call that she got her dream job and he graduated.  I’m excited to meet my future nieces and nephews.  I’m excited to watch their marriage grow.  I couldn’t be happier for them.  How could I not want everything wonderful in the world for my baby sister?  I do.  She knows that.

So consider this my MOH freak out!!!!!!! yay!!!! yipeeee!!!! bam sucker!!!!whoop!!!!whoop!!!! Dang, Look at THAT RING!!!! :)

I’m also considering this the last of my apologies (I have already apologized face to face and over the phone) and the first of letting everyone know how truly excited I am to be a witness to what will be an enduring relationship.  I couldn’t be happier to see my mom’s wedding ring on the finger of my best friend and baby sister.