It started with a phone call from my second born son. We talked of traffic tickets and dental insurance. Then he said:
"Mom, I got the ring!"
"What? Are you still going to give it to her from the top of the Getty, when you visit LA ?"
During our conversation, he'd gotten a delivery notice of the ring. Rather than wait for California, he planned to propose on Saturday, in between Good Friday and Easter, so as not to detract from Jesus. Sounds funny, but he was nothing but sincere.
"Text me a picture right away!" I pried. He did and it was stunning.
She is a great girl. Smart as she is witty. Literate as Dorothy Parker, but with a softer edge. She has a solid family and loves Jesus. What more could a mom want for her son?
The next day, just after my husband saved my hat on our bike ride, we got a Facetime call. This time it was son and future daughter-in-law announcing their engagement. Here's how it went:.
There was no entourage of friends or hidden cameras, as is so popular these days. Just a simple walk in the park. It didn't hurt that the park was in the very romantic city of Charleston. The stroll's charm was not dampened by the gentle rain. In fact it made it better. A bystander took their picture. When the phone storage registered full, my son started to delete some photos. Then, in clear view to his girlfriend, there was the photo of the ring he'd sent me the previous day. She spied it and squealed.
In the drizzling rain, my son bent his knee and asked for her hand.
She said, yes, smile sparkling as bright as diamonds.
How Apple has changed our lives; down to the most non-technological thing as love! Engagements of the past would never have happened this way.
And that's ok. It just made the latest engagement in our family that much more spectacular.
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