I often wonder if when our
first daughter-in-law Renee joined our family, she knew what she was getting
into? We did not have quite as much
Disney “stuff” as we do now, ten years later. Although at one point during the
wedding process we did offer a Disney wedding to them, which she politely
turned down. Though recently she said, "maybe we should have taken you up on that
offer." Every mom wants their daughter’s wedding to go off without a hitch, well believe it or not so do the mom's of the groom's. Renee tried to include me in as much as she could, but sometimes things don’t go the way the bride wants them to either. I am sure moving in with her in-laws was not on her list of things to do as a new bride, but she did it with a smile (they did have their own apartment in our house) and we all got along quite well, even their dog Flash who would come upstairs to “visit” us on her own. I would get a call from Renee asking, "is our dog up there??" To this day we still miss hearing Flash pawing the back door to come in.
They did not last long with us, a little under two years, before the Coast Guard moved them to
