✦Good-natured, wise, kind
✦Smart as a whip, fast learner
✦Comic book superhero
✦Nerdy school girl by day
✦Solves complicated psychotherapy cases at night
✦Busy bee: knitter, cook, quilter, pianist, gardener
✦Great to cook with
✦Easy to rebuild house with
✦Makes housecleaning fun
✦Great teammate, wonderful to travel with, excellent person to bellyache to
✦Professional cuddler
✦Aficionado of the smooch
✦Pro at having a relaxed evening, at playing in the “rhythm section in life”
✦Has smile that lights up rooms
✦Laugh that makes everyone laugh
✦Real weisenheimer, but a lovable one
✦More Jung than Freud
✦She’s The Babe!
~ from Doug’s vows
✦Big, beautiful lion
✦Powerful creature
✦Combo of strong and gentle
✦Authentic, so thoroughly honest
✦Deep, raw, real, strong, gentle
✦Not Freud or Jung, but Dr Ruth
✦Truly loving human being
✦A devoted friend
✦Works himself half to death to help a friend in need
✦Everyone who knows him thinks the world of him
✦Dedicated, devoted with a completely pure heart
✦Deeply good to people .... on airplanes, on buses, at home, at school
✦Cares about other people's dreams and supportive even if that means moving against his own interests
✦Can make anything happen
✦Christine’s private Santa Claus
~ from Christine’s vows
And... on a crisp December's day, with the shadows growing long upon a field of green and the time winding down,
in front of 60,000 screaming fans, their palms sweaty and poised on the edges of their seats, she is a miraculously placed desperation pass from Joe Montana to unrealistically outstretched fingertips in the back of the end zone
to win the championship game. Christine, for Doug you are..."The Catch!"
~ The Reverend Steve Weingarten