This has been an interesting day. It started off a bit slow and lazy. We finally got outside and worked on doing some shelving work in the garage. We didn’t get too far but got it started.
At 2:00 we met with the preacher that will be marrying us. We may try for a March wedding. Trying to coordinate the five kids schedules and the preacher, the church and our schedules is a challenge. Who knew the date would be the hard part?
Jim needs to confirm with his sons if the day we have in mind will work. I text my kids and they are all going to see if they can make it work. Flexibility is a key part of all of this. We want to do a family dinner the night before and have an early afternoon wedding the next day. All five kids will have to come from out of town to be here. I appreciate their accommodating us.
The preacher is going to have us do a series called Prepare and Enrich. It is some sort of personal assessment we each do and find where potential strengths and weaknesses of our relationship might be. We will discuss the results with the preacher in a series of meetings with her. We meet with her again in two weeks to get those sessions started.
We have been outside since we have been home from the meeting with the preacher. Jim is working on shelves and I have been scrapping windows. He had to go get some brackets and hit my new car and locked the two cars together. Luckily there is a rubber protector where he hit my car and no harm was done. He feels really bad!
I fixed chili in the crock pot this morning so when Jim comes back from the hardware store we can have dinner whenever he gets hungry. The house sure smells good.
Tomorrow early afternoon I am headed for Strong City. I’m meeting Tim, Ellexia and Jason for dinner tomorrow night. I have two prescriptions to pick up, I need to go to the bank, and restock critter feed while I am in town before dinner. My surgeon’s appointment is at 1:00 Wednesday afternoon in Wichita and I will return to Stillwater after that.
I’ll be back in KS the 17th as I am going to KC on the 18th to do something with Nicole. Not sure how long I will stay that time or if Jim is coming with me. It will depend on how the cat is doing. The cat didn’t pee on the floor today so progress is being made. We’ll see if she can keep that up.
Thursday morning I have my first tax preparation class. I am excited to get to meet some more people from Stillwater and find out how they do their program. Trusting I will remember how to do taxes.
Next week I have class from Monday to Wednesday. Not sure if they are all day classes or only half days. I haven’t gotten any information on the classes yet. Not sure why communication seems to break down but it is broken. Trusting things will sort themselves out soon and I will get in the loop as to what is going on.
I will have to get going if we are going to get married in March. Still thinking we will have a very small wedding and plan receptions on a different date afterwards. That may change. Jim has lots of friends here in Stillwater so he may end up inviting them to attend the ceremony. He hasn’t decided what he wants to do yet. I am a planner and he tends to be a procrastinator. I understand being a procrastinator as I can also be one at times. Have no idea what I want to wear to the wedding. We really need to decide how big it is going to be as that will drive part of my decision what to wear. I hate trying on dresses and have no idea where to go to find one. I will not be wearing a traditional bridal dress. Jim will not be wearing a tuxedo either. We are way more casual than that. I kidded him and said I might spring for a new pair of blue jeans.
I called and got car insurance for the new Forester lined up today. Also chatted with the Sirius and got a year’s extension of the free service lined up. They had a special deal that I get a free Amazon Echo and the Sirius service is only $5 a month for the first year. Much cheaper than their normal pricing. I have four free months until I have to start paying for it but the deal had a time limit and if I prepaid today they honored the deal.
Feeling a bit unsettled tonight. I think the thought that I am getting married this year is finally soaking in. Part of me is terrified I will screw this one up too and part of me is so very happy and confident it will work this time.
Grateful for a wonderful, compassionate preacher, grateful for five kids that are willing to drive or fly miles to be here to celebrate with us, and grateful there was no damage done to my car.