Mr. December's Christmas Post

Hi Everyone - Darcy here!
Merry Christmas and Happy Ever After!

That's right, ours will go down as a love affair to make history books - or at least one of those chick flicks on the Lifetime Movie Network or the Hallmark Channel - not that I, Fitzwilliam Darcy, aka Mr. Grinch and Mr. December, would ever watch those channels.  The guys at the West End Cave would have a field day with that!

So, my beautiful Liz asked me to blog with my feelings and thoughts on this whole mushuggeneh process we went through.  She also wanted me to tell you Merry Christmas and thank you from the bottom of her heart.  Thank you for your thoughts, cheers and your good wishes.  Thank you for following her through her maddening attempt to find Mr. Wonderful - when all along I was here for the taking.  LOL  jk.  Hey I might not have been perfect, but I was enamored and completely determined to win Liz's love.  Anyway, she'll be back on January 1st to tell you about her sister's wedding and Charlotte will be back next week following Jane's bachelorette party (I don't want to know anything about that!)

Our most important thanks goes to everyone of our "matchmakers" who worked tirelessly to bring us together without ever a harsh word.  Their diligence paid off ten fold, because not only did Liz and I fall in love, but so did Rick and Charlotte, and Charlie and Jane patched up their misunderstandings.  Heck, even my cousin, Anne found some fun and excitement - just ask Mr. June.  I think you ladies refer to him as "Hose Monster."  

If you ask me, I'd say that this was one hell of a lucky month.  Even 'The Cave's" new probie, Sanchez, found love when he hooked up with Charlie's sister.  I can't help but think that the planets were actually in alignment for that one.

I suppose this is where I should share with you on the q.t. that I can hardly wait to ask Liz to be my wife.  Finally, my heart found someone I would love to take 'the all important' trip to Tiffany's for.  I cannot imagine either a life without Liz or letting another day go by without proclaiming to the world that Ms. Elizabeth Bennet was destined from her blessed birth on Friday, January 13, 1987 to be Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy.  You see, that was a blessed and lucky day for me as well!  The day my bashert came into the world.  Will she say yes to my proposal when the time comes?  I hope to God she does!  She told me last night - she is optimistic about forever.

Waking up this morning with Liz in my arms was the most incredible feeling. Making pancakes with her and feeding them to her in bed was the next, giving her the emerald Tiffany earrings the third.  To go to Presbyterian Hospital's Burn Center with her today as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus was amazing.  She was a natural and her compassion, exuberance and joy was felt by everyone. The kids loved her and so do I! Her love is my never-ending Christmas gift.

I know she didn't mention the details of the earrings, and how I gave them to her, I guess she was afraid to kiss and tell.  What I will tell you: the livingroom was aglow with only the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree, George Winston's piano filled the room, but all I heard was my heart pounding in my ears when I handed her the earrings.  We were laying beside the tree, with a warm, gas fire burning in the hearth.  My Liz looked like an angel, her emerald eyes sparkling.  It was when she said, “My heart is open to yours and my mind is optimistic about forever,"  I knew that was the moment to give her her gift.  She cried.  I did too, and that's all I'll say about that. 

In the span of less than a month, we've come far Liz and I, somehow healing the wounds and soothing the ragged scars acquired during our lives, some inflicted by others, some created by circumstance.  To obtain what we set out to achieve, we both had done things we never imagined doing.  If you asked me a year ago if I'd ever dance half-nude on stage to Elvis while hundreds of women screamed around me, I would have thought you insane!  But truth is - I did it for Liz.  Besides the obvious fundraising for the Foundation, Liz is the reason I agreed to the calendar campaign, just so I could be near her at every event and help make her ad campaign a success.  Not that her talents need my help, but I wanted to do everything I could to assist her. 

Liz's whirlwind dating and an important reunion with JL was an illuminating experience for which I am thankful.  In the end, she realized that she had found her Christmas date for the next sixty or so years!  ME!!

Yes, and I found my Christmas spirit, now deeply embedded in my heart and soul, allowing me to feel, cherish, share and rejoice in EVERYDAY.  Her love - gave me that!

Was it considered luck or lucky that evening when I went with Rick to watch the Rockefeller tree light and meet Liz?   I don't think so.  I think it was plain and simple destiny, written in the stars - or in heaven, maybe on the pages of one of those Jane Austen romance novels, but it was definitely embodied in the full moon when magical things happen.  We found the other half of our heart that night and I know unequivocally that:

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy were destined be together from the beginning of time.  It just took a FDNY firefighter muscle calendar to bring us together and make it happen- that and a little matchmaking.

Well, I've got to go now, Liz promised a special Christmas dessert and she's in the bedroom waiting for me. ;)  

Our Song:  "You're All I Want for Christmas" by Frankie Laine 


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