Tuesday, July 26, 2011

a night with NKOTBSB and a morning with you

dear,

as you well know, i went to the NKOTBSB concert saturday night. and it did not disappoint. but i want to tell you something. matthew morrison was the opening act. he was wearing his trademark fedora. he flashed his dimpled smile and sashayed across the stage, crooning jazz hits and spinning around. but my heart only skipped one beat, not the two i expected, when he whispered in to the microphone and looked up into the camera, his blue eyes twinkling. similarly, my temperature only rose a few degrees when donnie wahlberg ran across the stage, ripped off his tank top and threw it into the crowd, though others around me fanned themselves in exasperated desperation.

and then, when my favorite backstreet boy, nick, chose a woman from the crowd, placed her on a barstool and sang just to her, leaning over into a backbend across her lap, i only felt the slightest tinge of jealousy, unmatched by the shouts and hollers echoing off the coliseum walls. they sang. they danced. they pelvic thrust their way into the night. and i watched in enjoyment, it is true.

but on sunday, as we sat in church. on the hard-backed chairs. we bowed our heads and you. you reached for my hand and held it between yours as we prayed. and i felt my heart leap to my toes and swell with love.

that, my sweet, is the right stuff.

20 comments:

Christi said...

Perfect.

Nadine-Adele ♥ said...

so cute :) I love NKOTB!
nadiine-x

Anonymous said...

Absolutely love this!

~Tiffany
http://tiffanyd22.blogspot.com

Jennifer Rod said...

that is so true!
... i thought you were going to end with this is part of growing up. :)

Valerie said...

i went to one of these concerts too, and "they pelvic thrust their way into the night" is actually the perfect description. incredible.

love that you have the true "right stuff" with your husband!

Erika Lee @ A Tiny Rocket said...

haha i love NKOTB- they were my first concert when i was like 9 or 10.

Eleanor at Mirror Of My World said...

oh my lovely, your writing steals my heart everu time. sounds like you had a great time!

DaisyGirl said...

Love it!

Shay said...

This is my favorite post by you EVER! So sweet and so funny how our hearts can swell for such different things (thing, in our case:-))

Hannah {Culture Connoisseur} said...

I want to shed a tear.

BEST POST EVER....EVER.

Amber said...

I loved this band so much as a kid. I even had a nightshirt with their faces on it that I would wear practically every night. Tonight I will dream about pelvic thrusting NKOTB boys

Jill said...

this is so sweet. True love can't compare to teenage lusting :) I loved NSYNC more than BSB!

Anna said...

Oh my goodness could you BE a better writer? Adore this post. And you.

Kaylia Payne said...

Aww, how beautiful :) You and your husband are so incredibly sweet.

Ashley Arnold said...

You're amazing. This is just too funny, and so wonderful all at the same time.

Breeanna @ a brilliant melody said...

That must have been an amazing concert! I would have been jealous of that women on stage too!

Cassie said...

Love. You have a special way with words, dear. Xx

charla beth said...

this is. absolutely. beautiful. the perfect love letter. <3

Some Korean Website Highjacker said...

what a blast!!! oh i've loved those groups for so long and even if some friends thought it was cheese i still kept the candle burning they'd come back one day. you're so lucky to have seen them, Brian & Donnie are always my faves.

your right stuff moment made me smile, as always...your stories are infused with such graceful resolves. xo ♥

viagra said...

I think that this compilation album is one of the best, I gonna share an extra detail about NKOTBSB, , Both bands first performed together at the Radio City Music Hall in the summer of 2010.

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