Tuesday, March 13, 2012
seven months...
Today marks the day that seven months from now will be our wedding day! I look forward to the day when we no longer say goodbye at the train station and can share regular meals together and just spend an evening relaxing at home together... I am loving this engagement time to be sure - lots of fun planning and figuring things out... but i miss him when he's gone and that's getting to be no fun... We are so thankful to God for bringing us together and for blessing us so richly and pray that He may also use us to serve Him too even in this time....
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Updates from the meadows
Good morning... very early morning for most of you folks out there - my nursing colleagues and friends know about the 3:00 lull/slump/crash (severity depends on the amount of sleep gathered the day before!) and i'm heading towards that fateful time very shortly - so if anyone's up and bored, now's the time to give me a call and have a chat...
Seeing as i have not the courage to dive into the book i brought with me to work - why did i pick the Grapes of Wrath??? Strange choice methinks! I thought i would give my little blog an update since it's been sadly neglected this month. To my credit, i have been a mite busy - but as i'm sucking on my first ever Murray Mint (i'm working with two British ladies tonight and they were kind enough to share a candy and the jingle - they're singing it again as we speak), i thought i might ramble on for bit - Mom, if you're up, you can always give me a ring since i know you haven't been sleeping much lately.
There have indeed been many goings ons in the Meadows lately - or rather, away from the Meadows. The weeks since our engagement have been filled with many happy smiles after people found out our news - we have been so blessed with a wonderful, loving church community and family! We are realizing more and more the joys of that and i think my poor jaw muscles were tired out from smiling that first week...
There, now my mint is crunched - it was pretty good - an interesting combination of caramel and peppermint - but refreshing to say the least.
I don't have lots of neat pics like my dear friend Laura - with her kiddos and other interesting happenings, but i can say that in the last few weeks, i've felt many many emotions - up and down, backward and forwards, smiles and laughter, tears and unknowns. There have even been sleepless/very restless nights - surprising i know to those of you who know me well - that i usually can sleep through a tornado without waking. The head's been full, the heart overflowing, the mind racing and the dreams (when they do come) working overtime to plan our wedding. I desparately don't want to turn into some bridezilla who talks of nothing but weddings and plans and colours and flowers and such... oh, it's fun to plan - but please stop me if that's all you hear! A good friend told me that the first few weeks after you're engaged, there's so much busyness and planning to be done but that it does slow down a bit and that's probably good since my family probably couldn't take too many weeks like this past one! I want to thank first of all Timothy for being a great listener, willing to help out with planning, having ideas and encouraging me! Super wonderful to have that support!
Also my mom and dad... willing to jump in the car with me at the last minute and head out to look at venues and flowers and the like... And my great friends, who have willing hands, listening ears and great ideas for me! I love you all!
Oh dear, waxing emotional in the early hours of the day....
So the checklist for the last three weeks includes...getting my ring resized, picking out and buying a wedding dress (i keep writing "weeding" - is there some weird thing going on?), researching about 24 million halls and locations for dinner, actually booking one, choosing a florist, church, pastor, photographer, colours and wedding music players. Phew... the mind spins with the effort - some decisions are easy, others involve considerably more thought and much prayer.
We are growing closer together as a couple even through this for which i am so thankful. I am looking forward to the day when the culmination of all this choice and thought comes and we will be married in God's house with His people, our people surrounding us. Oh happy day!
Seeing as i have not the courage to dive into the book i brought with me to work - why did i pick the Grapes of Wrath??? Strange choice methinks! I thought i would give my little blog an update since it's been sadly neglected this month. To my credit, i have been a mite busy - but as i'm sucking on my first ever Murray Mint (i'm working with two British ladies tonight and they were kind enough to share a candy and the jingle - they're singing it again as we speak), i thought i might ramble on for bit - Mom, if you're up, you can always give me a ring since i know you haven't been sleeping much lately.
There have indeed been many goings ons in the Meadows lately - or rather, away from the Meadows. The weeks since our engagement have been filled with many happy smiles after people found out our news - we have been so blessed with a wonderful, loving church community and family! We are realizing more and more the joys of that and i think my poor jaw muscles were tired out from smiling that first week...
There, now my mint is crunched - it was pretty good - an interesting combination of caramel and peppermint - but refreshing to say the least.
I don't have lots of neat pics like my dear friend Laura - with her kiddos and other interesting happenings, but i can say that in the last few weeks, i've felt many many emotions - up and down, backward and forwards, smiles and laughter, tears and unknowns. There have even been sleepless/very restless nights - surprising i know to those of you who know me well - that i usually can sleep through a tornado without waking. The head's been full, the heart overflowing, the mind racing and the dreams (when they do come) working overtime to plan our wedding. I desparately don't want to turn into some bridezilla who talks of nothing but weddings and plans and colours and flowers and such... oh, it's fun to plan - but please stop me if that's all you hear! A good friend told me that the first few weeks after you're engaged, there's so much busyness and planning to be done but that it does slow down a bit and that's probably good since my family probably couldn't take too many weeks like this past one! I want to thank first of all Timothy for being a great listener, willing to help out with planning, having ideas and encouraging me! Super wonderful to have that support!
Also my mom and dad... willing to jump in the car with me at the last minute and head out to look at venues and flowers and the like... And my great friends, who have willing hands, listening ears and great ideas for me! I love you all!
Oh dear, waxing emotional in the early hours of the day....
So the checklist for the last three weeks includes...getting my ring resized, picking out and buying a wedding dress (i keep writing "weeding" - is there some weird thing going on?), researching about 24 million halls and locations for dinner, actually booking one, choosing a florist, church, pastor, photographer, colours and wedding music players. Phew... the mind spins with the effort - some decisions are easy, others involve considerably more thought and much prayer.
We are growing closer together as a couple even through this for which i am so thankful. I am looking forward to the day when the culmination of all this choice and thought comes and we will be married in God's house with His people, our people surrounding us. Oh happy day!
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