Tonight, my husband surprised me with tickets to a midnight showing of Breaking Dawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He printed out the ticket and told me to get something in my closet for him. When I opened the door to my closet, I saw the ticket carefully placed under my Eclipse poster (yes, I have an Eclipse poster)!!! Apparently, he sent an email to my Twi-hard friends over a month ago and told them he wanted to surprise me with tickets since he knew I was so preoccupied with Zoe to purchase pre-sale tickets. He not only got me a ticket, but he got all my friends tickets as well!!!! You see, me and my girlfriends all read the Twilight books together and have been watching midnight showings as a group since the first movie came out. It's been a tradition of ours ... this year, with all the changes of having babies, our group has dragged our feet a bit in coordinating -- okay, I failed to coordinate it. I'm usually the biggest Twi-tard of the group and this year, I was just so engrossed with Zoe that I overlooked the whole pre-sale ticket thing. And if you're a fan, you know that tickets get sold out FAST if you don't buy them right away. I haven't even had time (nor the desire) to scour the internet for everything that is Twilight (motherhood -- you strike again!). I eventually sent out an email to my friends asking them if they were still interested in going to a midnight showing or if it would be easier to catch it on a weekend (I wasn't sure either how I could do the midnight thing coming from Oxnard and figuring out what to do with Zoe) ... to my dismay, they all responded with a "maybe" or "sorry ... maybe not this year" or no response at all. Time was ticking and tickets were selling fast and I realized that maybe my Twilight experience would be a little different this year. I just chalked it up to everyone being too busy to get together for our tradition and told myself that I could still watch it on opening weekend. Besides, I'm a mom now ... who needs to be watching a midnight showing with girls half my age? WELL ... thank goodness my husband came to the rescue! He was able to coordinate everything with my girlfriends and was also able to get them to not tell me anything (no wonder they all came up with lame excuses!). He also volunteered to take care of Zoe for the evening so that I could go have dinner and watch the movie with my girlfriends (since Mike's a Twi-hard too, he's been the only guy allowed to watch the movies with us) ... he said we could watch it together during the weekend instead (yay! I get to watch it TWICE!). He said I deserve a night off (good thing my "boss" was on board as well). Do I have a great husband or what?! Talk about romantic!!! You see -- romance doesn't have to be roses and chocolates ... romance is truly just thinking more about the other person ... it's being considerate and thoughtful ...
It really means a lot to me that my husband wanted to do everything he could to make me happy ... he knows how much I look forward to my Twi-hard tradition -- not just for the movies, but he knows I love bonding with my girlfriends in that way .... I guess just because I'm a mom now doesn't necessarily mean I have to let go of everything I was/am. Yes there are things that will inevitably change about me due to motherhood, but I should hold tighter to other parts of me that don't need to change. My husband reminded me of that important fact tonight ... and for that, I'm eternally grateful. Thank you Lord for blessing me with such an amazing husband!
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