Melody wrote about our wedding dress shopping foray and I can't improve on it so I'm going to just quote her. It really happened on Friday though.
"SATURDAY, THERE WAS A PRETTY LITTLE GATHERING OF THE GENERAL WOMEN OF THE FAMILY, PLUS JACK, MINUS A FEW SISTERS-IN-LAW. ALL IN ORDER TO GO DRESS SHOPPING FOR A CERTAIN SPECIAL OCCASION. IT WAS A GLORIOUS EVENT, WITH MUCH GIGGLING AND ‘OOH-ING’ AND ‘AHHH-ING,’ AND ‘I BET I HAVEN’T SHAVED MY LEGS LONGER THAN YOU HAVE.’ IT WAS EVERY HOLLYWOOD CLICHE I COULD EVER DREAM OF (WELL, MAYBE MINUS THAT LAST TIDBIT.) AND MY MOTHER LEFT ONE LOVELY WEDDING DRESS RICHER. AFTERWARDS, WE ALL ATE UNTIL WE WERE UNCOMFORTABLE AND THEN SOME."
I find shopping to be draining so I didn't take Marene's advice to keep looking and come back later if I still wanted the dress. I just bought it. It's very gorgeous, not the traditional white thing. And after trying on all those dresses and looking in all those mirrors, I did NOT overeat at the restaurant. I let the young women do that.
This morning, I noticed the house felt warm--it's a rather cold house. Then I remembered that I told Joy yes when she asked if she could turn up the furnace. So I went and looked at the thermostat. Try to guess what a 10 yr old would set it to. Years ago, we shared a house with a neighbor from Ecuador and the thermostat was in her side. She kept it in the 80s which was great until we moved out and the landlord sent us the utility bill for an entire year. Joy had put it to 82 degrees!! Sometimes I'm not too bright. You would think after raising so many kids, I'd be a little quicker to anticipate outcomes.
Words escape me sometimes when trying to say how I really feel. I'm still in the euphoric state of being madly in love. I didn't think that was ever going to happen again. If there was time and space to tell what I've been through the last 2 1/2 years, you would understand when I say that I am so, so thankful to have Keith and I love him more than I can say.
I'm off school and work now for a couple of weeks but so far there's been no rest. I foolishly have not finished my Christmas shopping and the lines in the mall are much longer than I anticipated.
