Love — 52 Cards Project #35

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Given last week’s card for my 52 Cards Project, you might have wondered what I would draw for this week’s theme card. If you did, you’re not alone. So did I!

The theme would be about our daughter’s wedding, of course, but over this long weekend as mother of the bride, I was much too busy to draw and much too full emotions to even sort it out!

When I finally came back down to earth to make my card for the week, the usual symbols presented themselves. Bells, hearts, flowers…At first I felt I couldn’t find my own way around these well-worn images. What, I wondered, could I say that hasn’t been said before?

But you know, this tale IS as “old as time”—but it is also ever new.

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Anticipation — 52 Cards Project #34

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Anticipation — 52 Cards Project #34

“An ti ci pAY A tion…it’s making me wait….”

What?! Did you know that those aren’t the actual lyrics of the chorus in Carly Simon’s song? I did not! The actual chorus is “Anticipation is keeping me late…is keeping me waiting…”

Well, that’s lame if you ask me. My version is better. I’ve been singing along to it since…1971!

“It’s making me wait….making me WAY A A A A-it-ing….”

That was certainly what I was humming as I made my theme card this week for my 52 Cards Project. Because it’s been a week—no, months, no — over a year—of anticipation for a very big event. Our eldest daughter Abby and her fiance, Peter, are getting married! This weekend.

You might be wondering why I chose a drooling black Labrador for this card. Well, there’s a story behind that.

You see, long ago

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