the stamp of approval...

soooo saturday is the big day! the day i finally get to meet ben's parents...now he's told me a stack about his mum and i had a feeling late last week that i was going to really like her...

so in preparation for our 'cuppa' with her on our way to canberra saturday, i bake a cake! figure it would be rude to turn up empty handed...

so, i get there a little earlier than planned, ring the doorbell, and she comes to the door...i hadn't really created a mental image of her from what ben had told me...the first thing i noticed though was her smile - she has a lovely warm smile! i instantly felt welcome, despite my nerves...

she takes me through to the kitchen (turns out ben is still in the shower - guess that's my fault for turning up early!), i give her the cake (which is still warm) and we chat...

i can't remember everything we talked about as the whole thing was a bit surreal - you know how things are when you've run them through in your head like a movie a million times before they actually happen so when they are actually happening for real it feels a little weird - but i do remember this:

we were talking about ben, she was telling me that she thought he got his intellect from herself and his father, and his sensitivity from his grandfather (her father) twentyfold...i smiled and said i thought he had a big heart, she told me i did too...then she thanked me and told me that she'd never seen him so happy...then she kinda cried, came round (we were talking over the kitchen bench) we hugged, she apologised for crying, i told her not to...

sooo i guess you could say i got the stamp of approval from his mum which given everything he's told me about her, how wonderful she is and how much he loves her, is pretty special...

what's really special though is this: that both ben and her see me for who i really am and that makes me realise sometimes that the journey isn't always easy but there are moments that come along every now and again that make it ALL worthwhile :-)