I am feeling a bit emotional today. We are going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tonight. I remember Aubrey and I reading that book together almost this time four years ago, on our drive from Nova Scotia to the Yukon.
To be honest those books mark so many milestones in our lives.
I got the first Harry Potter book in 2000 at a Christmas gift exchange with some of my friends in Prince George. This was just a few months after Aubrey and I started dating. I wanted to read it with him, but it was a bit early in our relationship and I was afraid to ask. I thought he would laugh at me. So I was very happy when he asked me to wait until he was finished his exams so we could read it together. And so the story goes...
We read that first book over Christmas in 2000. Books two and three took us through our first year living together at that apartment in Prince George. I remember curling up together on the couch so many times to read just one more chapter.
We read book four during the year we lived in Kentville. In that tiny castle apartment that we loved so much.
Book five took us across the country when we moved from Nova Scotia to the Yukon. We saved it for the drive and read all the way from Kentville, Nova Scotia to Watson Lake, Yukon. A year later we named Padfoot after one of our favorite characters.
We started book six during the summer of 2005, and finished it on the drive from Haines Junction to Smithers for our wedding. Aubrey was driving and it was starting to get dark so I pulled the headlamp out of my bag and kept on reading. I remember pulling into a gas station, sobbing. (Have you read the book? Do you remember the ending?). We were so close to the end but between the darkness and the tears I just couldn't see, so we had to put it away. We pulled into Smithers around 2 am and finished reading the book curled up at Dave and Penny's place in the middle of the night. A week later we got married.
We've been waiting for the last book for two years, and it comes out next week. The last one. We're planning to read it during our road trip in August, if we can wait that long.
Part of me knows it's just a book. Just a story. But that story has been such a big part of our relationship since the beginning. It is cool to think that we'll read the last book waiting for our first baby to arrive, and reading the Harry Potter series together will become something we did as a couple before we became parents. Just think, in a few short years we'll be able to re-discover the story with our own kids.
In other news I am enjoying a DQ Blizzard and wondering how I only gained 3 lbs in the last month considering the amount of ice cream I've consumed. Maybe the baby enjoys eating the ice cream too!
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