Carl and Crystalynn
Aug. 15th, 2012 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffAbout a gazillion years ago, my son Carl, a high school sophomore, met me on the front porch steps as I was coming home from work. It was spring. He looked nervous. Uh, oh. I thought. What now?
I expected him to say that he broke a window, or that he was flunking a class. I didn't expect him to say that his girlfriend was pregnant.
Carl moved in with Crystal that summer. He was sixteen. And though he only lived across town, and it's a little town, I missed him so much. We were running our little coffee shop then, and he rode his bike in every morning and worked before school.
Today Carl and Crystalyn went down to the courthouse and got married. They just wanted a simple ceremony, and they asked that Mike and I not come -- because they want to have a big ceremony next year, and then it will feel special, with us there for the first time.
So here you go, this young family. They got their almost-4 yr old, Seth, a ring, too. Here's a few pics -- someone must have been holding their little guy, Jareth, who was born in December.
with Crystalynn's dad, Keith
I expected him to say that he broke a window, or that he was flunking a class. I didn't expect him to say that his girlfriend was pregnant.
Carl moved in with Crystal that summer. He was sixteen. And though he only lived across town, and it's a little town, I missed him so much. We were running our little coffee shop then, and he rode his bike in every morning and worked before school.
Today Carl and Crystalyn went down to the courthouse and got married. They just wanted a simple ceremony, and they asked that Mike and I not come -- because they want to have a big ceremony next year, and then it will feel special, with us there for the first time.
So here you go, this young family. They got their almost-4 yr old, Seth, a ring, too. Here's a few pics -- someone must have been holding their little guy, Jareth, who was born in December.
with Crystalynn's dad, Keith
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Date: 2012-08-16 01:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-16 01:54 am (UTC)