Love is in the air ths Christmas season!

If you're a friend of mine on facebook, you probably already know the news, but for some of you who are not, I recieved a wonderful text from my brother last night on the way home from doing some stocking stuffer shopping. The text read "We got engaged today." Thats right both my brother and my sister are now officially engaged. Due to the fact that my brother had already planned on marrying his new fiance within the next couple of months and giving her a ring as soon as she got to NC from Guam they will actually be the first to get married(well technically it's both my brother's and sister's second go around of getting married). Due to the fact that it is against my brothers fiances beliefs for two people of the same immediate family to get married within the same year, they will be married by January. My sister will probably be married by summer. Neither want a big wedding. I pray that both of them have wonderful marriages and nothing like what they have both experienced in the past.

My sister got married when she was 16 and was divorced by the time she was twenty. She had two children within those years and was in a horrible relationship with her ex-husband. We kept trying to get her out of it and through love she always went back. The final draw was when my mom went up to the state where she moved to live with her ex husband and she went into labor with her son and while she was in the hospital her ex took the older child. That began a terrible divorce and I feel sorry for both of her children to have to deal with this. I was six when my sister got married and she kept me after school. I saw lots of fights and intervened lots. I'm so glad she is out of that. Due to the way that relationship went, ever steady boyfriend she dated after that always had the same characteristics. What triggered her to date these people, I do not know, but it was always the same types of guys. I do not understand if she would not allow her children around these guys, why would she submit her own self to these guys. Anyways, this guy I pray to God is different. I pray he treats her right. And I definately pray he treats my babies right, because for the longest they were like mine. There is stuff we do not like about him, but I assume there is flaws in everyone. Hopefully within these next few months we get past the flaws and my sister is sure this is what she wants. She loves him very much and as I've stated before, I hope he is the right guy for her.

My brother's ex-wife lived with us for a while during the time they were dating because her family kicked her out. They apparently did not like my brother. He went into the air force to make a life for them and before he left for basic training found out she was expecting his baby. When he came back after basic training and his other training they had a small wedding and moved off to live in Minot, North Dakota. She did not like being far from home and after the baby was born they moved back here. I'm sure you are wondering how he did this without actually coming out of the air force. Well, his bosses knew how much he loved the air force and his job and they saw some of the fights and knew that in order to make his marriage work, the only thing for him to do was to come home. They swapped him from active duty to air force reserves and they moved back here so she could be with her family and friends. Without going into strong detail of what all happened, the marriage failed and my brother ended up very hurt. He sees his daughter ever now and then, but definately not as much as he would like and that hurts him a lot. I also wish that his new future wife treats him wonderfully and makes him happy.