surprise surprise

Today I woke up around six in the morning, around eleven am on my alarm clock.  The power cut out one day.  I hit the time button just so it would stop flashing.  I never set it to the actual time.  Don't ask, I don't even know why I would annoy myself like this.  I still haven't changed it though, it's the pinnacle of my laziness I suppose.  So I woke up.  My mouth was basically glued shut with dryness.  I got up to get some water, I also knew that my dad was leaving for work, so I stood by my bedroom door waiting for him to come out so I could say, "Bye Daddy, have a good day at work." so he could say, "I'll try." 

He didn't notice me at the door.   He had walked backwards to his. He stood there with the door mostly open facing my mother who was still in bed.  I heard her do air kisses, and then my father did them back.  

I said my goodbye when he noticed I was standing there.

I climbed back into bed after  had tripped over my coffee table/trunk. 

It was then I realized I had just had a glimpse of my parents as I had never seen them before.  For that moment, they were not Mommy and Daddy.  They were Peg and Bill.  The were husband and wife.  They were this couple, together some twenty odd years, and still totally in love.  That is what I saw.  I am honored to have witnessed such a spectacle.

I am so grateful, that in these times of a lack of commitment on every sort of level, that I can say that I grew up in a household with parents that were the best of friends, parents that were still in love with each other.  I feel completely privileged. 

I can only aspire to have a relationship like they have, like my grandparents had.  To be able to give my children the life that my grandparents gave my parents and my parents gave to me. 

Tears of joy have been spilling over the brim of my eyes nearly the entire time I've been writing this.

So, this is a thank you, to my parents, for never falling out of love, for starting a relationship based on something real.  For keeping each other laughing through everything.  I really love you, incase i don't say it enough.  I hope to be like you some day.