I felt incredibly proud and accomplished.  I had achieved something that I had wanted since I was young. It was a dream I had given up on when I was a teenager and realized I would never be able to go to college. It was another dream come true. 

Hello, Lizzie. I’ll make sure to give a round of hugs out today.

“Esme’s Favorite Song,” the one Edward wrote that mentioned in a very recent post is one that I hum a lot.  

Five years ago I experienced this. There was a good chance me and my family were going to be destroyed.  I spent time talking with my children who were home. I spent time thinking about my children who were not with us at that time. I read a book with my granddaughter. I spent time intimately wrapped in my husband’s embrace and reminisced about the things we were so grateful for. We are still here, but I know from that experience that if the end were to come tomorrow, I have no regrets.

Rosalie and I are very close. We connect on a very deep level and are more like each other than anyone will admit. We are bonded through histories, experiences, family and love. I cherish her and am so grateful that she accepted me into her life and her heart.

We never discussed sex prior to our marriage.  Sex before marriage wasn’t even a thought and it wasn’t something you talked about. It was just something I knew sex was expected of me on my wedding night. I never said that I didn’t want to sleep with him because there was never a discussion. Honestly, I wanted to be a “good wife” and that included intimacy. I never could have foreseen how poorly things would turn out. He never left me alone even if I did ask. Very quickly, I stopped asking because it was pointless.

It’s a song that Edward came up with in 1921.  It doesn’t have lyrics. From the moment he first played it, it has been my favorite melody. It always fills me with such joy.  It’s always been referred to as “Esme’s Favorite Song” and I believe it always will be.  

“Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen

I watch Glee with my girls. I think the show was better earlier in it’s run, but I still enjoy it. I uslually enjoy the musical performances more than the storylines.  I don’t relate to the students situations very much. It’s a bit foreign to me, but Bella’s actually been the best at explaining what’s going on in the characters’ heads. I’m wondering how next season is going to be after so many have graduated. I was disappointed that Kurt didn’t get into the school in New York.   

It’s difficult to quantified the places we moved because there were times where we were in motion or stayed somewhere as a stopover to somewhere else. We’ve stayed in the same place anywhere from a day to nearly a decade. I think if you asked this question to every person in my family, every one of us would have a different number for what we consider “moves.”