{"id":8373,"date":"2008-08-28T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:58:05","slug":"blue-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8373","title":{"rendered":"Blue And White: Jean and Pat’s Bridal Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend we threw a bridal shower for my sister Jean who is getting married in September. It’s all very happy and intense. I love my family so much, and I love Pat’s family (the groom) … and Jean’s friends – many of whom I have known since they were toddlers rolling around with Jean on a blanket in the backyard covered in popsicle juice – are phenomenal women. Siobhan and I got up at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday and drove up to Rhode Island to meet up at Leslie’s house where the shower would take place. It was a blazing blue and white day. You can feel the ocean in the air. Leslie lives walking distance from the Atlantic. As I wrapped streamers around the fence, smeared in SPF 70, I could feel<\/i> the caravan of cars converging from all over New England – aunts and cousins and friends – coming to celebrate our dear Jean’s wedding. This is not an unambiguously happy time. There are things in our lives that put a shadow over the event. A big family thing. Which does not temper our joy, but seems to bring it out into even starker relief. It’s so intense that I am considering Xanax as a coping mechanism. Jean is a beautiful woman, and Pat is a beautiful man … a member of our family from almost day one … so to be on the brink of “making it official” is glorious indeed.<\/p>\n

It was a good day.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Jean and Pat got great gifts. There are many funny stories from the shower. Sarah, hugely pregnant, sitting with her feet in the pool, watching Jean open identical glasses from a box – Jean was blabbing on, caught up in the moment … opening each glass, even though they all were the same<\/i> – and suddenly out came a booming voice from the side of the pool: “STOP OPENING GLASSES!” commanded Sarah. We are all still laughing about that. Let’s keep the event moving, keep it snappy … STOP OPENING GLASSES.<\/p>\n

Us four bridesmaids worked our ass off to make this thing happen, and happen right … so once people started showing up, the event stopped being a phantom in my mind, something I worried about … and started becoming something to revel in, to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Especially the acute happiness of seeing my sister so happy.<\/p>\n

Xanax, please.<\/p>\n


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