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| Ok, so...I posted a while back about my parents (mostly my mom) backing out of helping with the wedding entirely. Bean and I have been trying to figure out a way that we can still afford everything we had budgeted while trying to magically make an extra 3k show up. Well...it um...did. My mom got a letter from her old insurance company (from her old job...her really old job) stating that they owed her money. From 1998. And it just happens to be over 3k. How's that for fate, eh? So mom's going to get a cashier's check for me. I get 3k and she'll keep the rest for herself. I hope she really does keep it for herself instead of spending it on someone else...again...
But we're getting help now! We don't have to scramble! I might not have to get a second job!
I am *so* doing my happy dance...y'all just can't see it...so for that reason alone, y'all should be doing your happy dance...
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| We *finally* got our house! We closed on Friday and we've been at the house ever since. We pulled up the nasty, stained carpet in the living room...tadaa!..hardwood floor! Too bad there's plywood nailed to the floor under the nasty, stained carpet in the rest of the house. Jerks. We got the bedroom painted, we just have to finish the trim and it'll be done. It still doesn't really feel like it's really our house yet. Obviously, it is...but it just hasn't sunk in yet.
I'm so excited about the house that I completely have not been working on the wedding. I still need to do the hotel rooms, but they all just seem so expensive. I don't want to make my guests stay somewhere they can't afford. I just wish I knew what to do. It'd be nice if I had some help. Sigh. I still haven't done the rehearsal dinner, either. I keep reading that the dinner should be the opposite of the wedding...so if the wedding's really formal, the rehearsal should be really casual. Well our wedding is really casual, but I really don't want a formal dinner. Once again, help would be handy, but no dice. Oh well. I'll figure it out eventually. I just hope it isn't too late when I finally do get it together...
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Bean and I were strolling around Borders the other day, and we found this book. We've been reading one 'nugget' every night before bed, and then we talk about it. So far, we haven't found anything that we've disagreed on, but we read a few in the store that will probably lead to some lengthier discussions. Just a matter of time. Anyway, it's pretty entertaining, I think it's really giving us something we can come together over and kind of 'bond' with. Some of the language makes me giggle, but it was written by psychotherapists...what do you expect? Besides, it's giving us some good discussion material. Which is nice, since we're trying to buy a house and we keep getting 'stalled', and we're both getting really frustrated...which is leading to us being kind of snippy with one another. Haha...when I get snippy, we say that my "Irish is getting up"...and it's been up a lot lately. Hopefully a) we'll close on the house this week, thus ending the snippiness (for now), and b) the book will give us more tools to communicate better...and hopefully prevent my Irish from getting up. 
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| Oh my gosh I have been *so* sick lately. Do y'all have any idea how much it sucks to have a stuffy, runny nose, plus a chest rattling cough on top of asthma? UGH. Anyway, I'm getting better. Next on my list of wedding stuff to do: book hotel rooms! I'm actually kinda scared of doing it. How does it work, can someone tell me? Do I have to pay for all the rooms ahead of time? I mean...how else do they hold rooms? I don't want to call them and ask because I'm afraid they'll balloon the price since I'm clueless. Help!
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| I found this online and just *loved* it. It's called the Blessing of the Apaches. When I showed it to Bean, he really liked it as well, and now we might be using this as our final blessing before we kiss and are presented. Perhaps just the first part...I think by that point in the ceremony I'm going to want to get to the kiss ASAP! Haha! Still trying to find vows though...I want to get them chosen, but he keeps telling me we have plenty of time. Which we do. (3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days...oddly enough, approx 3 hours as well right now...ha!) But I'm so excited...things are starting to come together and it's starting to feel real. I'm getting married to my Bean! Hooray!
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years,
May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.
Explanation:
Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves
often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the
tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When
frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship - as they
threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to focus
on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In
this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the
sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a
moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility
for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance
and delight.
myweddingvows.com
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