First of all, she's beautiful. Inside and out. And is willing to sacrifice her personal wants for the family. A year and a half ago we were planning on her quitting her hall advisor job and having a little more time for herself and our new daughter. As things turned out we were unable to have her quit. She has been a hard working and uncomplaining hall advisor since.
She's also an amazing mother. She loves every wonderful, frustrating, heartwarming, patience-trying, minute that she is with Lucy, and Lucy absolutely adores her mom. Lucy has even begun to recognize for herself when she and mom need to sit in the middle of the room together and just breath(it's calming to them and beautifully hilarious to me).
But most importantly and encompassing everything that I mean to say- she is my best friend. And as friends and spouses we put a present tense on Lewis' old quote:
"We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as the thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil, my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me."
~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (1961)
Happy Birthday Lori, I love you!
20 comments:
Wes- I can't believe you stayed up to do this tonight! but obviously I am doing the same thing...blogging at midnight...:)
Lori-I love you because you are the first girlfriend I've ever had that I have not had to compete with or have felt inferior to. You make me love myself no matter what...we talked tonight about meeting for the first time...I can't tell you how the spirit confirmed to me that you would be an important person in my life at that first greeting...how I am so thankful to you for helping me find my husband and for being one of the greatest friends ever! I hope I make you feel as good about yourself as you make me. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Lori!! Wes you are such a sweet husband.. i love your little family! Lori, I have loved getting to know you better through your blog (blogs have to be good for something right.. so i can justify all the time i spend looking at them :))You are such an amazing person in so many ways and your writings have been such an example to me of the kind of mom, wife, daughter, friend, etc.. that i want to be more like.. you are wonderful! Happy Birthday!
Lori! Happy, happy birthday!! I hope your day is/was fabulous -- you deserve it! Thanks for always being so positive and uplifting.
Happy Birthday my dear! I love you because I always felt I could be myself around you--from the moment we met in Fugal Hall and we talked about our missionaries :) Oh that was so long ago! I never felt judged around you even when I did stupid things... I knew that you always loved me--which made me love you even more!
How nice of you wes!! Happy Birthday Lori!! I think Lori is probably thee nicest person I have ever met! I hope you had a great birthday! We Love you!!
Happy, Happy Birthday, Lori!!! What a beautiful post and fabulous photos. They really capture you. Lori is...kind, gracious, loving, feminine, supportive, beautiful, an exceptional writer (as demonstrated in her blog entries), and has the most darling dimples! I don't know if I've ever told you how much I enjoy those cute cheek indentations. Thank you for being an example to me in so many things - mothering a two-year-old especially. May you have a smashing birthday!!! We send our love from VA!
You can't think of one without the other can you.....Wes, you are a Champion's Champion! ( I wept at the C. S. Lewis's quote...powerfully true.)
Lori...You are a Shinning Star radiating goodness, warmpth and love. We join everyong in offering a prayer of thanksgiving for you. We are grateful for your birth and life. You help us smile at trivia, weep at inner whisperings, and ignore the unimportant. You honor me by calling me Mother.
I wouldn't even know where to start.
I can sincerely say that my life would be vastly different if I didn't know Lori. Her example and support are irreplaceable.
I love you, Lor.
Happy Birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!What a great birthday tribute from your awesome husband!! Hope your day was fun and relaxing!! You are such a sweetheart Lori, We love you!!
Happy birthday to you girl! Celebrate with that cute husband you have! He is a gem. Ever since our paths crossed in this blogosphere, I have loved reading your insightful, loving, positive posts. I have loved getting to know you and your little family. I hope you enjoy your birthday!
Happy Birthday Lori! I don't know what else to add...you are an amazing person and I am so glad to be related to you, even if it is through marraige. It's so nice to have people like you in my life that are so uplifting and make me want to be better. Thanks for being that kind of person! Happy Birthday! We send you our love!
Wes, I am impressed.
Lori, is an amazing person inside and out...I don't know what I would be like today if I hadn't meet Lori (and Wes) my freshman year. I am definitely glad that she is back in my life...due to that I am stiving each and every day to be a little more like Lori in everything that she does!
p.s. (I blogged about her and Heather for their birthdays!)
We echo it all . . . we love you Lori! Hope you had a wonderful day.
Lori, I love ya. Hope you had a great birthday! I can't believe you can know someone for such a short amount of time that can impact your life so much!
Lori,
One of the many things I love about you is that you make me want to be a kinder person. Coupled with that, is that you never make me feel bad when I say/do stupid/thoughtless/sassy things. We missed you on your birthday, but are thrilled that you could spend it with your family. Let's have a belated celebraish!
Ok, so this is several days late, but I just had to participate! Lori is not only good and kind and all those things we all know her for, but she is pretty darn hilarious sometimes too. I can think of many conversations ending in outrageous laughter. Thanks for all the fun times!
Ditto...to everything that has been said above....you are an incredible person...thanks Wes for sharing with us your thoughts...you are an incredible person as well! I have loved getting to know you better through your blog. Thanks for sharing with us!!! We love you...hope you day was way happy!
I'm late! But my wishes are sincere! I'm a Sept. b-day too--so that makes us both virgos, right? (i'm totally not into astrology, but maybe it demystifies some of our uncanny life similarities ?? ha ha!)
What a darling post Wes compiled for you -- you two have a love that is tender and palpable even through the blogosphere. I hope you had a wonder-filled day...and that all the days following have been equally full of reasons to celebrate life.
Lori, Wes and Lucy, it was wonderful spending the weekend with you. I am truly blessed to call you family and I admire you for your love of each other and life. You make us all want to be better people and couples and families. I love you with all my heart. Little sis, you brighten my day when I think of you and your unfailing faith. You are truly an example to me and I hope you had a wonderful birthday and many more to come....heehee.....
Happy birthday! You guys are just beyond sweet. I will always say that my sophomore year roommates saved my life in many ways. Lori is just full of goodness and fun! I'm just glad to be her friend.
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