i want to tell you a story
a true story
one that gives me hope
and reminds me that even in a harsh world, the love we want so badly to believe in, does in fact exist



so im planning on surprising my parents and getting a new tattoo
normally they would be pissed. but this tattoo represents them
it is going to be the letters FAAW
this stands for "Forever and a Week"
and that is how my dad signs all of his cards to my mom
which btw is adorable in itself

but what is more adorable is this

i had to go looking through all my moms old stuff to find a card with FAAW written on it so i can get the tattoo in my dads handwriting
and i was going through this old box filled with all my moms cards from the time her and my dad meet all the way through their first year of marriage
and as i was reading and looking through these cards while they were distracted with loto scratch offs downstairs, i started to read some of the letters and notes in th cards

some of them were about how he was jsut missing her at work, others were about hollidays and special occasions, some were written on napkins, or the paper from my dads old work, some were stickey notes, some were letters, some were "im sorry for being crankey today" kind of cards. every type of card, note, reminder, and letter you could imagine.
all reminding me, that my dad is completly, and irriversably, madly in love with my mother.

i mean these letters were so cute. one was about how he knows things are tough and they were going through a rough spot, but that together they can get through anything cuz she is the person that he wants to spend the rest of his life with and loves more than he ever thought he could love anyone.


all this kind of choked me up. i mean sometimes its hard to believe this idea of love taht we see in the movies, and the idea of love that i want so badly to believe in. the idea that love is all you will ever need. but seeing those letters reminded me that no matter how bad things are, something like that is possible, and that alone is worth living my life for. the idea that life can bring you something or someone that amazing. well that makes me more hopeful than i have felt in a long time

and i realise, that i will be lucky to one day turn into my mother, and marry a man exaclty like my father.