Happiest Day of My Life (So Far)

Let’s hope that by Saturday the weather will be… warmer, but hopefully not as humid as earlier this week, because I have decided to take my biological mother to Six Flags Great Adventure, in celebration of my 26th birthday, which is NEXT Sunday. (Feel free to send me birthday wishes! :) )

Some of my nicest memories from high school was at Six Flags. Almost ten years ago, for my sixteenth birthday, my dad took me and three of my friends there, and we spent a whole day riding roller coasters and eating ice cream and hamburgers. It was SO MUCH FUN. Even my dad went on a few rides, sadly, by himself (since he was the odd person out). My friends all agreed that my dad is the coolest dad ever.

Once when I was talking with Boyfriend, I described that day as “the happiest day of my life so far.” I realize that I probably shouldn’t have put it that way, since Boyfriend might have been sad that the happiest day in my life so far wasn’t a day spent with him. But really, you often only know these things in retrospect. While you are in the moment, you are mostly “happy but not yet knowing it.”

What made that day so perfect? I think it was a combination of being with BOTH all your favorite friends AND your parents, and seeing that they get along so beautifully. So often these two parts of our lives are kept separate, and when they come together it’s awkward and stressful. So when a day like that happens and all the most important and favorite people are together with you and everyone gets along and has a great time, it’s almost magical.

Oh, and riding many, many roller coasters.

Thanks, Dad!!!