Valentine Day 2007 Is A Wren-Wren Situation
I always liked Julie’s1 middle name, Wren.
I am pleased and proud beyond description, just as Julie would have been, now that two newborns2 share that appellation.
Named in remembrance of Julie are
- Ruby Wren (AKA Awesome-o), who has been featured here previously, was born 29 December 2006 to one of Julie’s nieces.
- Adelaide Wren3 was born 30 January 2007 to a woman who served as nanny to da boyz and has continued to play an important role in their lives even as she has gone on to a much different (and much more highly paid) profession and to raise a family of her own.
I do want to also mention that I am familiar with and care for other babies, tykes, toddlers, and lil’ ones. Indeed Ruby Wren has cousins of whom I’m fond, and Adelaide Wren has an older brother who also scores highly in my affections.
Today, however, I am celebrating the Wrens in my life.
Credit Due Department:
The Candy Hearts were manufactured at http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/
The Wren-Heart graphic was generated at http://www.imagechef.com/ic/poem/
Footnotes
- Julie Showalter was the fiercely intelligent, sexy, and loving woman and prize-winning author, with whom I had a outrageously wonderful 20 year marriage that ended with her death in late 1999 from cancer diagnosed the week of our wedding nearly 20 years earlier. Many posts on this blog are about her, our unlikely romance, and our life together, and still others consist of her writings. Information can be found at Julie Showalter FAQ. ~back~
- OK, I suppose technically, they are “recently-borns,” but that doesn’t scan as well ~back~
- While this is Adelaide’s first appearance in the Heck Of A Guy blog, her parents’ wedding, which included a tuxedo-clad Prodigal and Mesomorph, was featured in the post, Tux Redux ~back~
