How did you spend Halloween?

Since I was at the Net Impact Conference, had a flu while I was there, I came home exhausted on Sunday and just slept.  Which means that Halloween Day, I had a bunch of homework to do before class that night.  So much that I was late jumping into the shower, and taking off for Seattle. 

My home phone rang twice while I was getting ready, and so did my cell phone.  I ignored both, deciding to return the call enroute.  I looked at the caller display, and saw it was my daughter.  So immediately I'm thinking . . . it's something really good, or it's something really bad, but whatever it is, it's something.

So I called.  And here's the gist of this conversation . . . "Mom!  I've been trying to reach you!  I'm married!  You're the first one I called!"

If I'd been here at home, I might have fainted.  Driving at 75 mph, however, does not lend itself well to falling over in a dead faint. 

"Mom!  Did you hear me?  I'm married.  Logan and I got our rings a couple months ago.  We knew we were going out tonight, and we just decided to go to the justice of the peace, and we're married!  We even wore costumes, and people laughed and talked with us in the courthouse." 

Never occurred to me that I would not be present for my child's wedding.  Never occurred to me that my child would choose to get married without me there.  I barely know her new husband, even though they have known each other for 3 years.  They were so busy while living in Missoula, that I saw them once a year for a couple days at a time.  Not enough time to know someone, the way I know my daughter.  Maybe that's a delusion; I really must not know my daughter.  Or I would have seen this coming, somehow. 

Like many things this fall, this blindsided me.  I spent Halloween in a daze, not in a "maze."  Which leaves me to wonder what else is coming down the pike this quarter?