Hey everyone!

I miss you all!!  I miss Randall!! I miss my laptop!!!!  I have been on here very briefly lately, but I am going to "force" my way on here more, LOL.  I miss everyone and your support.  I have lurked when I can, and I am praying for you all!! Time is ticking, ticking and ticking.  Randy will be up here in 10 days, WOOHOO!!!   I hope he is ready to meet "my" family and extended family!! LOL...I know they are ready to meet him, and let me tell you, are they ever ready to meet him!! HEHEHE!!!  I hope he still wants to marry me after meeting them and being around us, LOL!!  Well, God put us together so I guess he doesn't have a choice!! LOL Wedding plans are coming along and I CAN'T WAIT to be married!!!  WOOHOO!!! I love you all!! 

I know your family have a ton of questions for him. I know if you were my daughter I would have. One of Shannons(my son') favorite stories is how I gave his girlfriend a list of 40 questions to answer. He was 28 at the time and it was 43 questions. And she failed that test. She answered every one of them. I've still got it somewhere. She failed with the answers and what she should have done was tell me to mind my own business. I want him to have a strong wife. One that is strong enough to tell her mother in law to butt out.  He didn't marry that girl(thank God) his wife now is strong enough to tell me to mind my own business but sweet enough to get away with it.  I know time is dragging for you and Randall but it really isn't that long. With the internet and telephone at least ya'll can visit every day. I'm looking forward to you moving down and becoming a southern lady.. Take care and I'm praying for you. Love, Miss Mary

That is funny!!  I know they plan on giving him the "3rd" degree, LOL.  He is ready for it!!  My 8 yr old neice handed me a list of questions to ask him a few months ago, it was funny!!  I never asked him, I already knew the answers, HEHEHE!  I am soo looking forward to moving down there!!  Thank you Miss Mary!! Love you!!

LOL Lucy!! If my husband had met my family before me I don't think we'd be celebrating out 32'nd anniversay tomorrow. So I know what you mean. Just kidding! But I'll be praying "The Meeting" goes well. I don't doubt it will. But just to get those angles on the way ya know?!

Yep, the Angels need to be on there way!! My parents actually love him already!! He has stolen my mom's heart, which is the most important.  BECAUSE if mom isn't happy, NO ONE IS!!!!!!  My siblings will be fine, they don't have a choice, he is going to be their BIL!  I get a little concerned as we can be loud, direct, joking.  Not sure how he is going to handle some of the things.  HE might perceive them as being rude, but thats the way they are, LOL.  I can't change them.  He will be fine though!! HEHEHE!!!!  Thank you!!

I'll never forget meeting my husbands family. I was very young(I started dating him when I was 12 and he was 17, but didn't meet them until I was 15)I was very shy and quite. Really I was. He took me to meet his Mother. Both his sisters and their husbands were there, his brother and his wife. and 7 nieces and nephews. I didn't say a word the whole 3 hours I was there. But nobody noticed. All of them are the type to talk loud and long. They also overtalk each other. Later on they said I was stuck up and snobbish because I didn't talk much but the truth was they didn't give me a chanch to open my mouth. I had to get out of my shyness to survive the family. But remember marry somebody and you are marrying their family also. Love, Miss Mary

How exciting for you both!!  Many congrats on your new home too!!

 I worried when Tim & I met that my extended family would like him or not!  My aunts & uncles fell in love with him.  The running joke is that if I wouldn't have married Tim that my uncles would have fought over him to win his heart!!!  I know that sounds creepy...but, it is just a joke!  It's b/c Tim works well on mechanically stuff and EVERYTIME certain uncles need help, Tim is there to help.  These uncles have been married a million years to each of my aunts too!!! Don't sweat your family...they are who they are regardless!  Randall will love them I am sure!!! 

i thought I would share my first time meeting my MIL with you to help put you at ease....My mother passed away in March 2006 at that time Robert and I had been dating for almost a year and I had never met his family......I found out why Mother's day....At easter Alyssa and I went with Bob to Yaya's house for dinner. his extended family was very warm and welcoming. So, a few more weeks went by and we decided to go back for Mother's day....We called to make sure what time, told his mother, aunt and Yaya we were coming. His family was brining lasagna from their house. Now befre i go further I should say that his mom and dad live less than a 1/4 mile from yaya, are slow as methusala and are NEVER early or close to ontime....We called at 1200 saying we would be there in 10 minutes and they were still at their house.....In less that 10 minutes they loaded 8 people in their van along with the food, went down the hill, unloaded, seated 22 people said grace and served them ......Sooooo when we got there, there was NO place for us to sit. His mother was very rude and made a HUGE deal out of having to move two children closer to their parents. I was in tears, his Yaya and all of his aunts were fuming but his mother was adamant that she did not know we were coming. Fast forward to December 2006 after we are married , but arranging our reception( we waited so that extended family on his side could be here). We had to go from Atlanta back to gadsden to finalize the details. We would be there for dinner, so when we got 10 minutes from the house we called to see if she needed anything.....Yes salad and they would wait on us.....YOU guessed it....in that amount of time she seated everyone and served them dinner. To me this was a Huge insult, as I was brought up that is you invite someone to eat with you, you do not eat without them. I refused to stay with his parents that night, we stayed at a hotel and ate tacos.....She still pulls the same thing on a regular basis, we kive to far for them to visit ( not really), they always have some snide remark to make....BUT I marrried Robert not them. Although I was kinda hoping to have a family with them, we are just as happy living our own little life.....Be happy you have each other, essentially it only matters what the two of you think.......and who YOU love....okay gotta go wake the princess..... althea

OMG Althea, We have married brothers!!!! As long as my bil, sil, and the precious other grandchild are there, she really doesn't care if the rest of us arrive or not! By the way, my sil WILL be late for her own funeral, she is that slow. You know when we all eat at there house if she says we are eating at 5 it will be closer to 7. So, we are safe when it is tiem to go to there house, everyone is on time there (no matter how late you are)...LOL. Hope you have a great day.