Marriage question...arrrggghhhh!

Sorry about the abrupt cut off last time...but as you know, when Tommy calls, I have to go. I also am trying to not shove his breakfast in his face and turn on the TV every morning to give myself a few extra minutes of computer time (although I must admit that is exactly what I am doing today).

I have a little rant for the day -
People keep asking, especially now that we are "offcially" planning to have more children, when Emmett and I are going to get married. I must admit I am terribly sick of that question. I mean, how do people expect me to respond to this? The truth is that I would love to get married at this point, but Emmett takes the whole marriage thing EXTREMELY seriously and wants it to be something completely separate from our roles as Thomas's parents. The inherent problem is that there is no way, of course, to separate our roles as Tommy's parents from the rest of our lives, and so we are kind of stuck at this point. I cannot hog tie him and force him to the alter, and I wouldn't want to even if I could. I basically pushed Jon into marrying me and I'm not interested in doing that again. If he wants to marry me at some point, great, and if he doesn't then there doesn't seem to be a whole hell of a lot I can do about it. I'm just happy that for all intents and purposes we are a family and plan to stay that way for the forseeable future. And I guess there is a part of me that respects Emmett's viewpoint. I'd much rather have him take this seriously and wait than jump in without a care. I waited nearly two years for Emmett to say "I love you," and when he did I knew that he really meant it and therefore it meant more to me coming from his mouth than it did from any other man that I've ever known. Okay, enough about that. I just wanted to get that off my chest.

Er, I think that Tommy's Elmo tape just clicked off, so I'll be back to write more in a couple of hours after he goes down for his nap.

Love,
Melissa