a dozen days
June 22, 2008 10:30 am UncategorizedIt is now less than two weeks until our wedding, and I’m beginning to get nervous. I am by and large incapable of seeing the “big picture,” so I tend to move through life a day/week/semester at a time with no real goal in mind — I figure I’ll get there when I get there, and then I’ll see what’s going on. So making a commitment like, oh, spending every day until the end of time with someone is a little new and a special blend of exciting and frightening.
“So what are we going to do?” I asked my fiance’ as we waited for our entrees at our favorite steakhouse last night. “You know, with our lives?”
He had some good answers: travel Europe, be the cool aunt and uncle to our nieces and nephew, adopt a handful of dogs. Maybe buy a house, maybe not. Take fabulous vacations. Eventually find a place between Indiana and Pennsylvania so we can help take care of our parents when they get up in years. Climb our way out of school-related debt and sack away all we can for an excellent retirement. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I would like to take the time to be the kind of volunteer who always has her fingers in something, become a master of the kitchen, and learn how to keep a clean house.
I suppose that’s enough to keep us busy for the next 50 years or so, huh? I’m trying hard to see past the end of my own nose, since lately I’ve been buried beneath a deluge of marriage-related material (completely coincidental) that’s scaring me a little, and I’m trying to picture what’s going to happen to us in the coming decades. I guess there’s only one way to find out, and that’s to take the plunge!
monica :
Date: June 22, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
clean house puhleeze! whats so great about a clean house? i only JUST in the last 2 years learned to pick up after myself and that was out of necessity (we dont want any unnecessary trips to the er b/c the boy swallowed an earring) sure i will clean the bathroom if someone is going to be staying over but except that, if the dishes are done and the couch is purple and not a fuzzy shade of yellowy beige the house is clean.
daddoo :
Date: June 22, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
Thank you for thinking of the great daddoo when he gets “up in years”. I just want to live long enough to see my daughter become a “master of the kitchen”!
And don’t worry, I’m sure that you and Halbert will think of enough to do together to keep things interesting until the end of time. I love you both!
Ken :
Date: June 23, 2008 @ 6:50 am
If Monica would have looked that far in the future, she likely wouldn’t have married me.
Believe me, there will be many many surprises and what you plan now will be something you will chuckle at in 10 years.
For example, would you have seen yourself where you are now if you planned it out in 1998?
Wait, were you born yet
love ya guys.
courtney :
Date: June 23, 2008 @ 8:26 am
Sounds like you have the appropriate amount of happiness/fear about getting married. I’m sure that’s normal. I’m really happy for you!