Mother of the Bride Spot

Random thoughts on being a Mother of the Bride...although since we are now past The Wedding, perhaps this would be better titled Random Thoughts On Life In General...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Let The Planning Begin!


Linda, Carole and I do most of our work by e-mail. We have long and impassioned conversations about breastfeeding, lactation, Vitamin D supplementation, when we should go to the beach, what kind of collars Annie & Zoey (Carole & Linda's black labs) need to get, can we fit yet another Certified Lactation Specialist course in the 2010 calendar, and so on.

Such discussions extend to wedding planning. Tim's will be our collective seventh, though Jill got married before we were working so closely on these sorts of thing. None the less, Linda has married off Adam (Biltmore Estates, Ashville NC), Andy (Seattle Tennis Club), Carole has had two fabulous weddings at the beach in Avon, NC -- one son, one daughter. My two were a bit more prosaic, being that they were at College Church in Wheaton!! But a good time, none the less.

So....in 6 months and 5 days, not that I'm counting, it will be my turn again -- this time as MOG. The three of us, who are SUPPOSED to be finishing up our lectures, have spent the day on the rehearsal dinner. Never mind that none of us has ever stepped foot on Long Island, let alone East Hampton, or more specifically, Montauk. Not knowing where we are going or what we are doing has never stopped us.

We have a theme....we even have decorations!

Watch out, Tim & Annabel -- the Wonderful Wedding Wizards are coming.....

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Goodbye Christmas, 2009

Yesterday we took the tree down, put the ornaments away, put all the rest of the decorations in the basement, and pulled apart the 1000 piece puzzle that Torrey, Chris, Bob and I put together over Christmas weekend.

Today all the Christmas dishes were put away. BUT this year -- something new. Life is too short to save the "good" dishes so I moved the Christmas dishes into the china cabinet in the dining room, and instead of putting out the inexpensive stoneware we had been using, I got out what we purchased nearly 40 years ago as our wedding china.

Actually, it isn't the wedding china I CHOSE. I only got two salad plates of that. It's one Bob and I picked out well after the wedding, and it has been put to good use every time we eat in the dining room.

Which about now is once a year. For Thanksgiving dinner. For which I use the Christmas china.

But now -- it is in the cupboard in the kitchen, and it is going to have a useful life.

New Year's Resolution: Don't save stuff to use for "good." Use it NOW.


Goodbye Christmas. Hello good china!

Friday, January 01, 2010

Welcome 2010


I promised I would blog more and do something else less. Whether that is Facebook, read, play silly computer games -- I'm not sure. Anyway, here's blog 1 for 2010.

First off, we have a wedding date -- July 17! Which just happens to be the 198th day of the year, not that I'm counting. Which means I have 198 days to save for the rehearsal dinner, get thin, and get beige. And keep my mouth shut. This is day 1. 197 to go.

New Year's Day is an interesting mix of old and new. Sort of a catch-up day. All new calendars -- I love taking the old calendar down and putting up the new. Starting a new section of my journal. Speaking of which, the journal goes from 2004 to 2014 -- when I bought it in 2004, one of Torrey's friends wryly noted that he thought I was quite optimistic. It's so fun to keep, that I bought one for each of my sisters this year. Evidently "As Time Flies" thought Lyn was extra prolific. They sent her two.

Anyway -- so that's the new. The old is doing the year end finances -- seeing how much was spent all year, figuring out where to cut next year, and how better we can do on saving -- all that sort of thing. Sort of a financial housecleaning if you will. Also new check registers, and new spreadsheets...

This year I started reading a new Bible as well. Last year I read the "Chronological Bible in a Year" which Torrey had given me for my birthday. It's really fun -- puts Job in the middle of Genesis! Anyway, this year I decided to get the Chronological Study Bible -- I find that trying to read the Bible through in a year ends up focusing more on the dates and where I am and how far behind I am rather than on the Bible itself. Looks as though the chronology is different, and it is the New King James Version (don't think I've read anything in the KJV except Luke 2:1-22 since The Good News Bible came out -- or maybe it was Living Letters). But this was the only version this came in, and so far, it's great.

The picture is of Torrey and Chris. I kept trying to upload it to Facebook, and FB would have none of it, so it's on this instead. I took it for our Christmas letter on the day after during our lovely snow which was 24 hours late. I think it is an amazing picture, quite frankly....

Bob is working on finances too -- though he's trying to figure out how much we need to have to retire. Frankly, thinking about that gives me the heebie-jeebies. So much so I think I'll go play Jewel Quest III.