“E-mail my heart and say our love will never die.” – Britney Spears

My parents are currently on different continents due to work-related trips.
They won’t see each other for 3 weeks.
This is an excerpt from the family-wide e-mail thread.
Week one.

I love that my dad is a romantic.  :) It warms my heart.

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My Darling W,
I am so glad to hear that you are well. I have been concerned not hearing from you. All I could do was to remind myself that you are where God wants you to be right right now. But now, I rejoice! I wish I could be there with you to see all the modern stuff there. Maybe, next time . . .

I miss you a lot and am so thankful for a wife like you. You are the best gift He has ever given me, of course, other than Himself. Will contact you when I am in Malaysia.

Luvs, H

[ten things i know to be true]

1. Change tastes like tears– the celebratory kind and the dripping heart kind together and all at once.
2. Sixpence None the Richer’s version of “Silent Night” is the best I’ve ever heard.
3. ^ That music video is hecka scary. I know cuz I just found it and watched it. I think it’s the eyes.
4. It’s next to impossible for me to keep my room clean for 3 consecutive days.
5. I’m being re-wired even now; I’m trying to unlearn unhealthy habits, behaviors, and beliefs that I’ve clung to since childhood. It’s hard.
6. The promise of bacon in the morning can get me up like no other. Not even 3 alarms can pull that off quite as well.
7. “Coming To America” is by far Eddie Murphy’s best movie. So quotable! “To be loved, to be loved! Ohhhh what a feeling– to be loved!”
8. That “Tangled” scene with the parents running to meet her (at the very end) gets me every time. Every. Single. Time. (Ask me about it sometime and I’ll for sure get all weepy on you).
9. I am physically unable to see chocolate-covered strawberries and not buy them. (This may be a lie, but there’s truth in it).
10. Deep down everyone just wants to be known and accepted and loved– in spite of themselves.