Mother-daughter moment

You can count Kara and me as being among the bazillion people to check out the royal wedding on April 29.

Typically, I don't follow the happenings of the British monarchy, but my boss, bless her heart, took a vacation day to be able to watch all the coverage in real time, and her excitement and the buzz among my coworkers was contagious, so I set my alarm for 6:10 a.m. and snuck downstairs to catch some of the marital pomp and circumstance.

Luke and Nathan were asleep, but Kara had crawled into bed with us sometime before six. She was quiet when I left the room, but fifteen minutes later, I heard her call out from upstairs, "I want to watch with you, Mommy!" (Luke had explained to her what I was doing, and he knew I wanted to let her join in the festivities if she woke up in time.)

So, for about twenty minutes, until I absolutely had to turn off the TV and hop in the shower for work, Kara and I cuddled together on the living room couch and took in the wedding. I told her she was watching a real prince and princess get married, and that they were getting married in a church just like where we go on Sundays. She thought about that for a minute, then said, "That's a church like our church, with a playroom!"

I laughed. "No, honey, this church definitely does NOT have a playroom."

I held her close and massaged my fingers over her scalp as she rested her head alongside my belly, every once and a while turning her face to me to show a big smile. Baby Brother was in rare form, and she was able to experience some of his most impressive acrobatics to date. "Mommy, I felt the baby pop!" she said.

At one point, I grew misty-eyed thinking that, at almost three and a half, it's very possible that Kara will remember sharing this moment with me, even if her memory of it is fuzzy and incomplete.

It was such a small part of our day, but Kara talked about that wedding on and off all weekend. "Mommy, I really liked watching your wedding with you," she said at first.

"Honey, that wasn't my wedding, that was the royal wedding."

"I mean, I really liked watching the royal wedding with you."

Me, too, sweetheart. Me, too. 

Comments

[Parsing Nonsense]

Too sweet!

[kim]

That is precious! Thank you for sharing

[Grandma Molly]

Awww, that is very sweet. Kara will have these moments in her memory bank, and you definitely will remember watching the royal wedding with her. Plus, since you have recorded the memory here, you both will have a chance to savor this moment and many others. When you come to visit, we might go to the park to show her where Mommy and Daddy were married.

[daddyd]

What a wonderful moment! Such joy.

[debi]

I love it. What a sweet memory you made with your girl. I spent the night with my daughter and along with her daughter (my 5 year old sweet granddaughter) we lay together in her big four poster bed and watched the most beautiful wedding ever.We brought out the special tea set for little Natalie and she loved every minute of it. We had many rude comments from people who thought it was a waste of time. Natalie has talked about it all week just like Kara. I know that she will always have that memory of the 3 of us in bed together laughing and crying as we watched history in real time. It was wonderful wasn't it?