A Movie Starring Me

A month of so ago, my URL friend Darcie over at Such The Spot did a post about moments in her life that would make up the movie of her life.

She called it Movie Moments and at the end of the post, she asked us to share the moments that would make our movie.

Then, I started thinking about the moments in my life that would certainly be a part of my movie.

IF there was one.

The grammar around here cracks me up sometimes.

So, I present to you my Movie Moments. Those moments that would most definitely make the cut.

In no particular order, of course.

• that first day of  high-school summer band.
• my first day “in” jail
• cruising with “the crew” in high school every single weekend.
• my first plane ride.
• feeling him kick for the first time.
• and him, too.
• peeing on a stick in the bathroom stall IN JAIL.
• realizing it was him I was in love with, not his best friend.
• stepping off the plane in Cuba seeing McDaddy and his beautiful smile
• that day back in 1992.
• signing 14 letters on a document which committed me and McDaddy to a 30-year mortgage.
• watching From Inmates To Playdates load on my laptop for the very first time.
• reading the letters R.I.P. above his name
• the stupid Dodge Avenger I couldn’t live without.
• waiting like a nervous school girl as his plane touched down after six very L-O-N-G months.
• admiring the beauty of Lucerne, Switzerland and remarking that I might name a baby girl Kaylie Lucerne someday.
• realizing I would never have a daughter. (sans some huge jaw dropper plan from The Big Man upstairs!)
• those frustrating back road ‘driving a stick lessons’ with McDaddy (bless his patient soul).
• our wedding day
• broken jaws and subsequent wiring shut of jaws for eight L-O-N-G weeks.
• hearing #7 called at Majorette tryouts.
• meeting my boys for the first time.
• hearing the words six month deployment for the first time.
• all the days in high school I wish I could do over because heaven help me I should have made better use of my time!
• posing for a picture with Don Diamont even though my goofy aunt forgot to turn the camera on
• sending my boy to Kindergarten (oh sweet mercy I was a mess)
• watching the C130 disappear into the clouds as I fought back tears
• five cent ante poker with my papa and cousins. (almost always 5-card draw, occasionally Dr. Pepper)
• walking out of the hospital two times without a baby even though I knew it could be worse.
• walking the streets of London hand-in-hand with McDaddy.

Of course there are pages and pages of movie moments I could write but these are the first ones that popped into my head.

What about you? Which moments would make your movie?

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