Someday Prince




	WRITE 2 THE HEART Stories that are aimed "Write 2 the Heart" January 30, 2002 Issue 013002 Cheryl Speir, Editor, moderator@write2theheart.com -------------------------------------------------------- By subscription only! Welcome to your next issue of "WRITE 2 THE HEART" You are receiving this FREE newsletter because you requested a subscription or a friend generously forwarded their copy to you. ------------------------------------------------------- Do you have a heart-warming story to share with our readers? We are accepting story submissions at this time. Please email your original story to moderator@write2theheart.com ------------------------------------------------------- Someday My Prince By: Jill Knotts --------------------------------------------------------- When I was a little girl, I watched the Disney movies and wanted to be the beautiful princess who married the handsome prince. Of course, living happily ever after was a foregone conclusion. I practiced being a princess by dressing up in too big dresses and fashioning a crown out of whatever I could lay my hands on. I anticipated the day I would grow up and find my prince. Something happened along the way, I became a teenager. The heck with looking for a prince, bring on the boys! Why look for a prince with a horse when you could date a guy with a convertible. After all, parking a horse at a Dairy Queen would be more embarrassment than a teenaged girl could handle. Those long dresses would just get in the way on the dance floor. Eventually I married and started a family of my own. Meeting day to day obligations put dreams in the background. Children have a way of keeping you focused on what is going on right now. Princess, prince, what childish ambitions. Try and find that job description listed in the classifieds! At last the kids move out. You have a chance to reevaluate your life, your goals, even childhood dreams. Some you put on a shelf, some you let go and some you take a harder look at. I roll over as I wake up in the morning, there lies my husband, my significant other, sleeping beside me. I wonder why I let go of my dreams of a prince so long ago. A prince would not be losing his hair and putting on a few pounds. It would be very un-princely to snore softly at my side. Just watch the videos, a prince has no bodily functions. They just stand around looking charming. I reflect on my life thus far. When I had a flat in the middle of the night, no prince appeared to bail me out. Hubby came though and changed the tire. When the kids got stranded, hubby was there to rescue them. It was he that raced us to emergency rooms for breaks and booboos. I didn’t see a prince around holding my hand during difficult labor. No prince used the royal treasury to pay our bills and buy our groceries. It was hubby who stopped the leaks and fixed the plumbing. It’s hubby who tells me how beautiful I am when I put on my favorite dress. Hmmm... maybe I have been looking at this wrong. I wonder... If I lean over and give him a kiss, do you think my prince would wake up? Jill Knotts knottj @ hotmail.com (We encourage you to write our authors and let them know what you think of their writing; please remember to take out the space before and after the @ symbol. The space is placed in the address to protect our writers from viruses.) --------------------------------------------------------- Jill has written “Hooked”, which can be found in the archives. She and her husband enjoy the empty nest period of their lives, though friends tell her it is short lived.. -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- <>< Prayer Request For Those In Service To Our Country <>< As you read over this list of names, take the time to pray for each one and their families. If you have a request to add, hit reply and send me their name. Trey, Emmett Summers, and Eloise asks for prayer for her family members in the Armed Forces and her extended family. --------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl's Corner Jeremy just filled out his very first income tax return. When he was through filling out the personal information about himself, I double checked and found that he had not written his social security number. When I pointed this out to him, he informed me he didn’t want just anyone to have it. Life is full of funny things don't you think? God bless Cheryl --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- © 2002 Write 2 the Heart Nothing may be reproduced or published without the written permission of the individual author or copyright owner. All rights belong to the authors.