Thursday, February 10, 2011
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: STAY TUNED!
Thanks for visiting Miss Becky Goes Abroad! I just set this site up yesterday, using a temporary template, to lock in my url. I've hired a blog designer to help create a special banner just for me, to give it the look I have in my head, but lack the skills to accomplish on my own. If I get her questionnaire completed by Friday, she's promised to begin work on it this weekend. Soon as the facelift is complete, there will be new chapters for you to read. Woohoo!
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This is really exciting!! I love it, and cannot wait to read more Becky!!
Dear, dear HCH: This is just lovely; I'm so proud of you for launching this second blog project. All of us will be hanging on breathlessly for each new post. Your first entry opened up even more questions. Such as:
Telephonic proposal? Do tell!
Ring in the mail? How exciting! Was anyone with you when you opened the package? Did you slip it on immediately? When were you next able to call John? How **did** y'all work out the international calling in those days?
So many logistical questions about a long-distance courtship in those years before cellphones, internet and Skype!!
I'll say it again: This is the most enduring and valuable legacy you could ever leave to your children, grandchildren, great-grands.......
Thanks ladies, I'm excited too! Yes, the phone thing. It was super expensive to call from overseas back then, so I only got 3 or 4 calls from John that entire year, including my marriage proposal. Mostly we just wrote letters, which took 2 weeks to arrive, and could be very confusing when your letters were crossing each other en route, and you couldn't remember exactly which questions the other person was answering. Anyway, after he proposed and I accepted, he told me his brother was getting a diamond through someone he knew, and I was to look at settings and pick out what I liked. I don't remember the details exactly, just that we knew which day it was supposed to arrive, and when the mailman still hadn't shown up before we needed to leave and go somewhere, my mom decided we'd drive around the neighborhood until we spotted him, and make him hand it over. So we did!
Ah, you just had me burst out laughing!!
That must've been so hard, and yet a little exciting, the letters, picking out the setting and waiting for it to finally arrive!! But, ha ha, I LOVE that your mother drove you around until you found the mailman!!
Oh and I certainly agree with musingegret, what a beautiful treasure you are creating for your family in sharing this all!!
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