Ok, I am going to start off with some sad news. My grandfather passed away on 1/10/07. My mom and I flew out two Saturdays ago and got home last Saturday. It was nice to spend time with my family and remember the wonderful things about my grandfather. My mom spent a lot of time scanning in pictures of my grandfather through all walks of his life and made this huge display of all these pictures. It was displayed at the visitation and the funeral. It was beautiful. My cousins and my sister and brother and I did a eulogy at his vigil service. We also sang some silly songs my grandpa taught us and the all the girls sang "I will Remember You". It was very nice. During the mass was when I got the saddest. My cousins and my sister and I sang at the mass too. At the burial site I was not that sad, because I did not look like my grandfather in the casket. A ton of people came back to my grandparents' house and it was nice to hear all the stories about my grandfather. I am much sadder now that I am home with out a whole lot of family around. I am sad I wont get to see him again and that he wont be able to dance at my wedding. I know as my wedding gets closer I am going to be more sad. I wanted to dance with him at my wedding like my cousin and my sister did. I am sad that I am never going to see him smile again or hear him laugh at himself. I am sad that my grandmother is alone now. I know that my grandfather is watching over us and he is still apart of us through all of our wonderful memories, but we are still very sad. Vicki said, "at least you know he'll be at your wedding and not in a hospital bed" (something to that effect. That was so special because she is so right. He will be there with me at my wedding and watching me and smiling.
Ok on to happier news. I ordered my dress in January because I noticed that it was no longer online. I thought that they were getting rid of the dress so I went to the store that night and ordered it. It came in in less than 10 days. Then I bought my shoes when I picked up my dress. They are so cute. I went to the David's Bridal on Tuesday of this week and picked up the bow for my flower girl's dress so I could have the color of the dresses we are going to order for the bridesmaids. Then Rod and I went to Afterhours that night to pick out the color of groomsmens tuxes so that we could match it to the bow. I hope everything looks ok since they did not actually have a full vest of the color we picked. I can not believe the wedding is less than 6 months away now. It is coming up so quickly. I know it is going to be here before we know it. I still have to order the favors. My mom and I need to sit down and figure out what we are going to do for our reception in VA. Also I need to start thinking of addressing the invitations. I suppose I should finish my thank you cards from my surprise bridal shower over Christmas first. I have a lot of stuff done, I just have a lot of stuff left to do. Luckily, my mom and I have the same spring break from work so I am sure that will be spent doing stuff for the reception here. I need to get together with my bridesmaids so we can pick out which dress they want and order that soon in case they need to get any thing altered. I guess the best thing would be to plan out everything I need to get done and then start figuring out a timeline.
School started two weeks ago. I wasn't in town for the first class because of my grandfather's funeral. This semester is going to be a lot of work, especially since one class is an online class. I hate online classes because I am not that motivated to get work done. Plus, when I have questions, I like getting to talk to my professor face to face. We can go online to have live office hours with our professor but I think that is going to be weird. Unfortunately this class is a research class and I think it is going to kick my butt. Hopefully I can do well and get an A. That is what I always strive for. My other class is counseling culturally diverse populations. This class is going to be very interesting but a lot of work. I ordered my book online, so I hope it comes soon because I am like a few hundreds pages behind.
So this is my life right now. I keep busy with school, work, wedding planning and spending time with my family and friends. I am still grieving the loss of my grandfather as well. Please continue to keep me and my family in your thoughts and prayers as we begin to heal. Thank you all!
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I've been thinking about you! I hope all is well.
I hope you take one of those lovely pictures of your grandfather and place it on a seat at your wedding with a red rose.
You know... when people are alive, they never want to leave, but when they finally do...they never want to come back. It's a free ticket to being happy, healthy and being with their loved ones... even if you can't be with them right now.
If only I could take my own advise!
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