I guess that you could say that we are pretty nontraditional, we don’t seem to do anything the way that most people do and we never have. I guess that it all started when we were married. Our marriage wasn’t planned, we didn’t set a date, we weren’t pregnant or anything, we just thought that it would be funny to go over to the courthouse and get married. We were both sort of just joking around and waiting for the other person to give in first and back out. I guess that we didn’t think that the process would go through so fast cause before we knew it; we were both standing in a little room the size of a bathroom being asked by a priest if we would be willing to put up with each other for life. “Sure, why not “we both said and that was that. We didn’t have a reception or a honey moon and we didn’t take any pictures. Nobody gave us any presents or even sent us any “sure glad you got married” cards but for some reason, despite the lack of all of those things, we’ve managed to be married for 12 years. When I became pregnant with Meshach, I didn’t go to pre-birthing classes, I didn’t read “what to expect when you are expecting”, I skateboarded until I was 6 months along but… I gave birth to him just the same. When each of my children entered kindergarten, let’s just say that they didn’t already know how to read but by the end of kindergarten they were always up to par with the rest of the kids who already knew everything before they got there. So, we’re not traditional and so far it’s worked out for us ok and maybe I’ve actually always been kind of proud of myself for being that way but I must say that the older that I get, the more I crave tradition. I was thinking the other day about what it would have been like if Tom and I had had a traditional wedding. How would it have been decorated? Who would have come? Would we have gotten a lot of presents? Would it have given our marriage a better foundation? I guess that I will never know.