He said yes!

After much conversation and thought we finally decided who we wanted to be our Kum. Originally Milan was thinking it should be someone older than us but I convinced him it wasn't necessary and that someone young could do the job just as well. He asked if I had someone in particular in mind and I was like, "Peter." He thought for a few minutes and agreed. Peter is already Kumovi because his parents are Kum and Kuma to Milan's nephew and niece-in-law and his brother is the Kum for their marriage. That makes me feel like I should put together a Kumovi tree just so people who don't know "the system" can see how it ties together.


C&M are Milan's sister and brother-in-law...green lines indicate kumovi relationships. Clear as mud even with the visual aide!


We invited Peter over for dinner last night. I'm pretty sure he had at least an inkling as to why we were having him over since no one in his family (or Milan's for that matter) has been invited over. Anyway I made a super yummy dinner...figured I had to win him over somehow so he'd be willing to take on this responsibility we were asking of him. So after many hours of eating and talking Milan finally stepped in and was like, "So Peter, we asked you over because we wanted to talk to you about something.....we have this time share..." I just cracked up! We had joked about asking him to babysit and things like that because we're just goofy people but the timeshare idea was never discussed so I wasn't prepared and couldn't hold myself together. After letting me laugh it out for a few minutes and Peter looking very confused Milan said, "I'm kidding of course. We wanted to know if you'd be our Kum." With no hesitation at all Peter said yes. Then I added, "This does take on some extras though because Eric and I would also like you to be our Kum since we haven't been baptized yet." He said, "Well of course, I'm truly honored that you guys asked." He was a little misty-eyed even! It was great, we all exchanged hugs and he called us Kum and Kuma which sounded so weird because that was the first time someone had said it to me.

I'm glad we decided on Peter. He's a couple years younger than me but so mature and smart and just an all around great guy. Besides that, the only person who is at church more regularly than Peter is Father I think...so from a spiritual sense he's the perfect choice too. He is the type of person who would give you the shirt off his back...his whole family is like that.

Milan has to work today but I decided Eric and I would go to church anyway. Seems odd to have our Kum over for dinner and then skip church the next morning...even though Peter didn't leave until about 1am.

Cute story...when I told Eric Peter was coming over I told him, "You may have to start calling him Kum Peter." He looked at me kinda puzzled and said, "Computer?!?!" I cracked up. He seems to have the name under control now though...I was kinda hoping Computer would stick actually. :)