Man Overboard

[StrgMarvelousWmn]

DH showed up on Saturday about 15 minutes after I left the house. D17's BFF was here with the kids when he got here. apparently, he told the kids he was not going to stay for the wedding reception, that he was going to visit a friend in mid state city.. BFF said "oh really, how interesting." She said DH looked at her with a look like "please do not say anything." She said she so wanted to ask him who his friend was that she was more important than being at his niece's wedding, but she kept her peace. D6 said "those people are stupid--Meaning people in that city--and BFF said she busted out laughing and left the room.

BFF told D6 she would give her a bath when she finished reading to S3. DH told her not to worry about it, he would take care of it and for her to get ready. I got home about an hour after he got there.

DH helped get the kids all dressed to leave, but never once mentioned that he was not staying for the reception. As a matter of fact, he did not mention it until after the ceremony was over and we were moving into the reception hall.

The wedding was nice and my niece looked beautiful. She wore my sister's wedding dress from her first marriage, my veil that has lace appliques from my mom's wedding dress on it, and a ring that my grandmother wore all the time. It was i special that all of us were an the altar with her.

I, being the sentimental fool I am, cried from the minute D9 walked through the door, right until the end of the ceremony. Especially tough was the part of the ceremony where the JOP talked about marriage being a lifelong commitment and the rings being a symbol of that commitment. I wear DH's ring with mine and I kept rubbing my finger over them without realizing it. D17's BFF told me, later in the day, that she had noticed it and that everything is going to be okay.

Even though I knew, I was still shocked when DH told me he was not staying for the reception. He left right after the wedding party was introduced. he told D9 goodbye, but did not talk o D17, D6, or S3 before he left. He did not even congratulate niece and her new husband. As he was leaving, he told me he would call me later.

Well, he did call, about 9:30, while I was out to the store, and after the littles were asleep. Told D17 that he was in other city, that he did not get a chance to say goodbye, and to tell me that he would probably not be over on Monday to see the kids. I hate that he relayed a message through D17, especially since he knows she knows everything anyway. Why rub salt in a wound. He did not tell hr to have me call back, so I did not.