The Gedstrom Gazette: New Beginning for All of Us

This is the beginning of a new life and family. Combining Renstroms with the Geddies, Greggie came up with Gedstrom. It is perfect!

April 3rd 2019 I started messaging Geoffrey Geddie. I was in so much internal pain from my sudden break-up with someone I had been dating for 5 months. Geoffrey had sent me a message the week before asking to give him a chance. Seeing he was a widower, I responded in hopes to not discourage him from finding someone. I was so desperate for help with the pain I was in from the loss of my previous relationship, I knew he had been through something horrible losing his late wife, so I turned to him. He was very kind to me, we enjoyed talking with each other. He was a good friend. We talked for 2 weeks straight. One night we even talked on the phone throughout the whole night. Geoffrey got sick and lost his voice as a result. It was so bad he couldn't talk for a day or so. He hasn't been able to sing his best for months. I decided that before I start to like him any more than I was and continued talking with him, I wanted to meet him in person. So, I paid for a full ticket, over 500 dollars! to go down there and meet him. That was scary. April 17th I remember sitting in the airport, feeling kinda raw as airports reminded me of my previous boyfriend because every time I had been to one the last 5 months was to visit him in California, or for him to visit me. Now I was on my way to meet someone else. I prayed to know if I should continue to talk with Geoffrey once I met him. I prayed that I would have that knowledge.

As I was waiting to take off the pilot said that they had Brianna on board. I thought, huh...that's interesting. That is the name of Geoffrey's late wife. When we landed, I was pleasantly surprised by Geoffrey's gentlemanliness. He had a flower for me. He opened my door to his truck and I got in. He talked kinda fast and seemed nervous. He seemed very happy to be with me too. We didn't really know what to do physically. So we didn't touch. I met his mother, his house was nice! He took me on a date to see where he works and tour the battleship museum. I realized I hadn't eaten in a while and I was starting to get very very sick. My hypoglycemia was at its worst. I didn't want to change his plans or ask to eat. I felt foolish. I tried eating what the airline had given me but it did nothing to help. We had a wonderful experience on the ship making fun of the mannequins. They looked freaky inside the confining rooms of the ship. I began to feel worse. I ate a peanut and ended up running to the bathroom and throwing up all over the toilet. I felt well enough to continue off the ship, but driving around was tricky. I kept getting nauseous and almost threw up again multiple times. He got me to the first Whataburger and the rootbeer helped me to be able to eat. He then took me to the beach at night and it was beautiful. He danced with me and we cuddled. I had taken his hand and he liked that. At the beach, he asked me to be his girlfriend.
The next day we took his boys to the aquarium there in Corpus Christi. I remember spending the night there when I was 12 for a young woman girls camp. Crazy. that was almost 20 years ago! Yikes! i am old....
We hung out at the house after that and he made a yummy dinner. We prepared for Easter and that was fun. He surprised me with an Easter basket.
He gave me a beautiful pink pearl necklace. We went to church together and he gave a talk. His sons-I really felt connected to Eli in some way. He liked my attention. Watson was a busy busy boy. As I was getting ready to go back to the airport, I looked up and saw the picture of Brianna he had hanging on the wall and I sensed a thank-you. That was very unexpected. We left and he took me to the airport. There he told me that I didn't need to worry about finances that He had the money to take care of all of us. I left and I could tell it was hard on him. It felt different for me. It was horribly hard to leave my previous boyfriend each time. But not with Geoffrey. I felt it was because with the other man it was like a dream. I would vacation with him and then go back to reality. With Geoffrey, it felt more real and like it was my life. It was nice.