I love the allergy idea. Personally I'd have also gone for aluminium, just for the pronunciation hilarity.
This trip will be filled to the brim with awesome. Have a great time!
I too had a quick courtship! I Spent the last semester of my senior year of college in Ireland...where I got engaged to a "local" 6 weeks after we met. We were married less than 3 mos later and parents did not even meet him until after we were married. They were thrilled...not at first, but after they met him :) He was a great guy...we were married for 22 years. I lost him 2 mos ago and miss him to bits, wouldn't have traded that quick engagement for anything. Have fun Sarah, and thanks so much for sharing :)
Good god, I am so happy for you! I hope it's a wonderful introductory trip. Can't wait to hear how it goes - Jessica, the big dork who was so excited to meet you at the crazy Boston/JP Cringe bar
I love how the comment peanut gallery has already decided you're getting engaged! (Unless...did I miss a post somewhere?)
Personally, I think it's all fabulous. This trip home will be excellent writing material (even if you choose not to share it all with us [yes, ok, who's got the private blog now? yes it's me]), and I can't wait to hear just what a "toned down" bedroom looks like for Pam!
Lots love 'n' luck to the man friend! There are lots of corners of the UK and Australia both that are provincial, so Tulsa may not be a complete shock to the system...only semi-complete. :)
I sort of forgot what I wanted to say after seeing the cardboard cutout of Han Solo. That sort of awesomeness knows no bounds.
Ahhhh where is the button for me to like this a million times.
Oh this made the start of my day!
And you should have seen the evil grin on Dale Brown's face when Stephen told the story of the birthday card! If only I had had a camera, but that face will forever be etched in my brain! Except only I can see it there...
I've run into both your mother and brother around Tulsa. Do you have any idea how deleriously happy I'd be to run into you and Nick this week? You don't? Well, I'd be over the moon! Try to spend alot of time in south Tulsa...you know, maybe at Conrads in Bixby, even!!
Hope all goes well with the big meet and greet with mom and dad!
See, I really really meant what I said, that's why it posted twice!
Dale is surprisingly intimidating in person! But only for a minute. I'm psyched that you are bringing Nick home. And hey, he already has Stephen on his side, right?
I've been with Seth for four years, and just got the bump from "friend" to "girlfriend" about two months ago.
I just hope Nick likes fake pie.
I met my wife's family (including parents) 3 days before our wedding. (she met mine the day before.)
my wife, before she became my wife, told me this story about her dad - while he was escorting one of her sisters up the aisle he whispered "it's not too late to back out of this". Well, I was watching him escort my wife up the aisle I see him say something to her. She wouldn't tell me what he said until after the reception - "I've never seen you wear fingernail polish before."
perspective fathers-in-law can be intimidating.
When my husband, then just bf, visited me in my hometown in TX one summer during college, he -- the native New Yorker -- treated it like it was some sort of anthropological expedition. He couldn't help himself -- he thought that kind of town was a myth. The highlight was when he saw two super old dudes sitting on a bench in the shade on the courthouse square, just passin the time. I can still hear the laugh -- he goes "Old dudes," very Butt-Head, and laughed this strangled little chortle ("haw ... mmherrr ... har!") for pretty much the entire trip every time he thought of it. Which was often.
Enjoy your stay!
Hey, worry not... he might be a fish out of water but the novelty of Tulsa will outweigh the shortcomings you believe are apparent. PLUS, he will be thrilled to bits and also intrigued to see where you came from. Trust me, I am a liberal native Londoner married to a man from a Southern Baptist (thankfully the apple fell a good few states from the tree in hubby's case) family from a small town in North Carolina. The first time I came over, Food Lion was a novelty!! It's been 6 years and we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary yesterday.
Enjoy, sweetie.
~Nate.
When Chris came to visit me in Kentucky from England for the first time, he met my mom on the second night of his 2 week visit. We had a nice evening and I thought everything went well. As we were halfway out the door leaving she says to me, in front of him, "I didn't understand a word he said, but I JUST LOVE HIM!"
It is a line that I still use today.
We met in September 99, I came to England in November, had moved to England by Christmas and we were married in July 2000. I don't like waiting for things. :) I can tell you though, the real Mexican food is a BIG HIT.
Man, Sarah, if you really want to scare Nick, do what my husband did to me: take him up to Bartlesville to see the multitudes of truck stop cafes. My husband's family is from there, and we still visit almost every Christmas...I can honestly say that the only good things about B'ville are my husband's family and the Price Tower (which, incidentally, has been totally restored, and the restaurant is rather yummy).
Oh yes, I still haven't had the courage to bring my boyfriend back home to Oklahoma. Someday, though. Someday.
Oh my god that bedspread is for a 60 year old. I think my mom would love your room, which is a bad sign. Hopefully the updating for Nick is all good.
Good luck!
this is fucking hilarious.
(We're both still "josh's/mia's friend" to plenty of people.)
Your mom sounds adorable. Have a great trip!
Christmas can be even more awkward.
You can go view the lights at Rhema together!
Hehe. AWESOME. Gotta love that first meeting and all the fun nervousness that goes along. Have a great time and then come home and immediately post about it! :-)
Oh, this is gunna be good! I have also loved "watching" the Sarah/Nick love story unfold, and adding the Browns into the mix will only make it better. Couldn't be more thrilled for you SB, and hope you can bottle up your giddiness and wrap it in al-u-min-ium to share as leftovers with the rest of the world.
Best final line in a blog entry ever.
Ha! My parents live in Collinsville OK. My mom did the same thing to my old room when I moved out. The best is the wall covered in straw hats. Every thing is white wicker too. Is it something they go to a class for in the Tulsa area? How To Turn The Empty Nest into Granny's Place 101.
Have fun!
They must be teaching a How To Decorate The Empty Nest Class somewhere in Tulsa. My parents live in Collinsville, OK (just north of Tulsa). My mom did the same thing to my room when I left. My favorite is the wall of straw hats. Oh...and the "chandelier" made of antique hats. Actually there's just an odd old lady hat theme going on in that room now.
Enjoy your visit!
Aw...poop! I didn't mean to post that twice!
Just catching up with all my reading. Just wanted to say that was brilliant. I loved the last line... I'm gonna file that one away for use on my mom sometime.
Have a great trip home. I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying the story of you and Nick unfold, since:
1) My husband is English, and our relationship progressed CRAZILY fast (he proposed 18 days after our first date, we celebrate 7 years marriage this Sunday);
2) My bringing him home to meet my family (2 months after we started dating) involved my father greeting him at the airport with rum, and 3 days of dancing in the streets in costume.
Okay, so I'm from Trinidad, and you're from Tulsa, so Nick probably isn't in for the same treatment as indicated in #2. But hey, both our home"lands" begin with "T," so that should count for something.
Or maybe not.
Anyway, have a wonderful, safe trip.
K.