Almost one month later...

Okay, so it's been almost a month since my last post, which doesn't surprise me too much. Life here has been crazy- full of wedding planning, football training camp, physical therapy, you name it. Stressful, but good stress, for the most part.

I just got through reading a friend's blog about Utah drivers. Having lived and driven in Utah, I completely understand his frustration and concern. For some inexplicable reason, Utah drivers are awful! But I have to add that Oregon drivers are coming up a close second.

When you start teaching your kids how to drive, you are even more critical of other people's driving. You see people making stupid decisions, disobeying the law, and what is really getting to me are the people I see texting on their cell phones while they're driving! If I hadn't seen it for myself, I never would have believed it. For example:

I saw a woman driving through downtown, texting on her cell phone, and going through multiple red lights without even blinking an eye or even looking up from her cell phone!!! Ridiculous! I even yelled at her out of pure disgust, and she just smiled and waved at me. She had no idea why I was yelling at her. And she was probably MY age!! Ugh.

'Do as I say, not as I do'.

I remember hearing this saying as a kid. It didn't make much sense to me then, but once I had children, I realized how often we do this as parents, as adults, really. We may think that kids don't pay attention to us, but that's just not true. They watch our every move, they hear everything we say, albeit selectively, but they do hear us. They just may not LISTEN. And I'll tell you what...you misspeak even once, and it comes back to bite you in the butt- over and over again.

Wedding Planning

We used to do catering, mostly for weddings. I loved it more than my kids did. If we could have had access to a commercial kitchen, I think it would have been easier. Well, that and if I hadn't had 'career-ending' back problems. But that's for another day. I love coming up with the menus, setting up the tables, keeping things stocked and appetizing-looking. It was very gratifying. And knowing that I didn't have to deal with anything else but the food was great. I never wanted to be a wedding planner. I just wanted to put out delicious, beautiful food.

Anyway...I honestly didn't realize how much planning goes into wedding planning when it's your own child. Plans keep on changing, money suddenly doesn't seem to be there, it gets crazy. And today, we're going lace shopping for Mary's wedding dress (which I'm sewing!). Things are slowly but surely being crossed off 'the list', but there's still so much left to do. As of today, there are 40 days until the wedding. What happened to the last 45 days?? They literally flew by!