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DINING BY FLASHLIGHT
submitted by: Carol Grant
When my husband and I were building our new home, we were very
anxious to move in and start our new lives together. Being
pregnant, romance was sometimes not the first thing on my mind but we
tried to make the best of an already stressful situation.
The roof had only gone up a week before and we had just put the walls up
and decided that we couldn't wait any longer to have our first meal in
our new home. With no furniture in the entire house, we made a
table out of a stack of drywall and covered it with an old blanket we
had in the back of our van.
We put on the radio we had brought for music and we ate sandwiches
and soft drinks we had packed in our cooler and had only the light of
our flashlight to eat by as it was getting dark outside. We sat on the
floor and talked about our dreams and future together being in our new
home and what our lives would be like together, and with our new baby
due two months later.
We didn't have any fancy dishes or candlelight or anything out of the
ordinary but just sharing that moment together and the communication we
experienced made it very special.
The next day we assembled our bed and slept in our empty house for the
first time. I lit candles as our only source of light and we snuggled up
together for our first night in our new home.
The entire construction period (4 months) was very stressful on both of
us but we always remembered our love for each other and that we were
building this house to spend our lives together. It was our labour
of love and we did it together.
Then, my husband did the most romantic thing for us. On the back of our
very last sheet of drywall to be put up, he wrote our names with the
year 2001 with a big, black permanent marker and sealed it inside our
closet wall... I thought this was very romantic and so
thoughtful that I cried and will always remember this, even decades
after we're gone from this house.
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