Hello, dear readers… long time no speak. Seems like Michelle has had the microphone for a while now, so it’s my turn to say a few words.
Fortunately, and as you would probably expect, Michelle has been driving much of the work that we’ve been doing, which is good because I have even less of an clue of what to do, in general. All I know is there seem to be endless lists of things to do and all of them require a fair amount of thought. Some of them also require physical work, be it driving many times between DC and Connecticut, eating lots of cake (trust me, it gets difficult), cutting and copying and printing until all hours of the night, or repeatedly updating address book entries. So that has certainly kept us busy, and the entries on the blog have reflected that.
When we started this blog, I had hoped to talk more about our thoughts and feelings as we moved closer to the big day. But it’s been over a year now and I think we’ve pretty much been reduced to online todo lists. Just wanted to let people know that all of that has been going on behind the scenes, of course, and our minister, Alice, has been a big help in keeping us mindful of the things that really matter.
The emergency move following the flooding tested our relationship and our patience with ourselves and with each other like no other thing we’ve experienced. And I keep coming back to something that Mark (Michelle’s dad) told me a while back — you are together to handle the things that neither of you could do separately, for the rest of your lives. We’ve been together over four years now and I can see that there is much wisdom in that.
Our marriage is the start of a journey and an ongoing transformation of our relationship. The changes will never end and I’m looking forward to that journey. And planning this wedding has been more about compromise and working together with ourselves and our families than the difficulty of doing a thing alone, so it in itself has been, and continues to be, a good test. However, I’m definitely looking forward to kicking back and spending most of September in Greece and Turkey!
So, with that, I’m off for now. I will try to check back with some more Moments From The Heart™ in the next weeks leading up to the wedding.
Mark ( Michelle’s Dad) Says:
July 30th, 2006 at 4:12 pmVisit Mark ( Michelle’s Dad)
I also said to remember , What’s yours is hers, and what’s hers is hers.
and the secret of a successful marriage is that the husband always has the last two words in every discussion….
“yes dear”