Thanksgiving will be the "seven months until" day. I love that it just happens to fall on the 25th this year! Exactly one month until Christmas which will set me just 6 months out from the wedding!! WOO HOO!!
The dress is ordered!
It's funny because back in August I found a dress that I loved and was all ready to buy but my mom wanted me to "sleep on it" a little while and make sure that's what I really wanted. So I did and in the mean time I spent a small fortune on bridal magazines where I looked at a million and a half dresses (yeah there are half dresses, they only come to the knee...) and was pretty sure that I wouldn't love any other dress as much as that one. My only fear was that I didn't think Gavin would love the dress if he saw it in a magazine. Lucky for me I rest assured he would love whatever I wore but I just didn't think that he would expect me to be in that dress. But I talked myself out of all anxiety and on Friday I went back to the store to buy the dress. The only thing is, THE dress was a different dress than the dress I just told you about.
Moments before going back into the dressing room with the dress I thought was the one and a couple others I was trying on "just to be sure" I saw a dress that had me take a back step... I asked my mom what she thought and she loved it. And I was sold. My dress, my dream dress, had just recently come into the store. Turns out my two month wait was the best decision!! I think Gavin will love this dress, too. It is seriously more than a dress that I love, it is the dress of my dreams that I think if I was six years old and in the store I would still pick that one. I promise, it's still a grown up dress though. It's just perfect.
Now that I have the dress I've moved on to looking for bible verses. Right now I'm leaning towards Ephesians 5: 22-33 or Philippians 2:1-5ish. I also love some of the stuff in Song of Solomon. And I really like where Ruth shows her level of commitment (where you go I will go, where you stay I will stay...) but my mom thinks that gets a little too intense so I don't know.
In other news, I'm really excited about the hope of this preschool for next year. I have so many ideas and plans already, and the idea of being able to really put my faith into what I do...ahh, I just love it.
I have a lot to be thankful for this year!! It will also be my first year to host Thanksgiving for my family and Gavin's family. They will all be over at my castle! I hope it all turns out alright, but I know that if it doesn't that it will be alright too. So many blessings to count this year!! God has been so good (and faithful!).
11.18.2010
11.09.2010
2 For 1
This is the second blog I've done this week! I'm on a roll!!
Todays' blog is mainly becasue I'm bored. gavin is grading papers and I'm trying to look busy so he won't make me help (I'm thinking this won't work for much longer).
To kill time I've also been looking online at wedding shoes. I'd prefer to spend the entire night barefoot, but my mother has said no. She also said no flip flops and I'm assuming that probably has something to do with her telling me a million times when I was younger to not drag my feet when I was wearing them. Or maybe she is afraid of me falling down the stairs at the reception site. Either way, I got the thumbs up for ballet slippers so now I'm on the hunt for some cute ones.
In other wedding news that is annoying and cutesy... I'm still staring at my ring all the time. One of my favorite things to do in the morning before work is clean my ring. I really only do it once a week, but it's my favorite. And at least once a week the kids want to talk about it. It is probably my most prized possession.
I know how important it was to Gavin to pick out the perfect ring. He loves to tell me that he got me more than I would have ever let him buy if I had been there. It isn't about the money to me, its about the importance to him. Every step of the way- from the first time he asked me what I thought about him buying me a ring some day, to him asking my father for my hand in marriage, to shopping for the rings, to him picking the perfect time and place to propose- there was a thoughtfulness like no one else has ever had towards me.
My mom told me one day that Gavin loves me the way a guy is supposed to love a girl. The way she always used to tell me I would someday be loved. I'm so glad my mom was right!!
And now, with suffient time wasted, I'm off to go stare at my ring some more! And maybe I'll even go grade a few papers for Gavin! The guy who has made me so stinkin' mushy!!!
Todays' blog is mainly becasue I'm bored. gavin is grading papers and I'm trying to look busy so he won't make me help (I'm thinking this won't work for much longer).
To kill time I've also been looking online at wedding shoes. I'd prefer to spend the entire night barefoot, but my mother has said no. She also said no flip flops and I'm assuming that probably has something to do with her telling me a million times when I was younger to not drag my feet when I was wearing them. Or maybe she is afraid of me falling down the stairs at the reception site. Either way, I got the thumbs up for ballet slippers so now I'm on the hunt for some cute ones.
In other wedding news that is annoying and cutesy... I'm still staring at my ring all the time. One of my favorite things to do in the morning before work is clean my ring. I really only do it once a week, but it's my favorite. And at least once a week the kids want to talk about it. It is probably my most prized possession.
I know how important it was to Gavin to pick out the perfect ring. He loves to tell me that he got me more than I would have ever let him buy if I had been there. It isn't about the money to me, its about the importance to him. Every step of the way- from the first time he asked me what I thought about him buying me a ring some day, to him asking my father for my hand in marriage, to shopping for the rings, to him picking the perfect time and place to propose- there was a thoughtfulness like no one else has ever had towards me.
My mom told me one day that Gavin loves me the way a guy is supposed to love a girl. The way she always used to tell me I would someday be loved. I'm so glad my mom was right!!
And now, with suffient time wasted, I'm off to go stare at my ring some more! And maybe I'll even go grade a few papers for Gavin! The guy who has made me so stinkin' mushy!!!
11.07.2010
Outing Myself a Little
Well, I guess it won't be secret too much longer any way so I can go ahead and tell whomever stumbles across this about my little secret...
Its not so secret that about a year ago I felt God was calling me to leave the school I was working at. I felt that little whisper on my heart and when I would acknowledge the whisper it felt like it got confirmed by others so when my contract came around to sign, I confidently turned it away knowing that I had a new path this year.
Then this fall no job came. I was very confused because I still had the confident "this is for a reason" feeling, but I had no "Reason" in sight.
I did, however, continue to pray. I opened my heart up to the possibility that God was working bigger than just a "new job" and started really tunning into the possibility that the whisper wasn't going to guide me to another school district- and it'd didn't.
You see my long term goals were to someday work in prechool. I absolutely adored my time working in the preschool. I love the kids, I love the singing, I love the type of learning that goes on in the school... I just always felt this was something I would wait until I had kids to do. But why?
I will spare the details of how God pulled on my heart on Sundays in sermons or meetings that mentioned the need for outreach and church growth and how He nudged me a little when I would talk about my long term goals as if there was no way they would work at this time.
I will tell you though that one I day I asked him if this could all be related. If He was maybe telling me that my goal to have a preschool and His goal to grow my church could somehow be tied together... I heard a yes. I have heard a lot more yeses over the past several weeks as I've researched and began working up my formal proposal to my church. A big yes was when my mom got on board with me (she's always worked with preschool age children, is an early childhood specialist, and oh yeah, opened a church preschool 25 years ago that was very successful), when Gavin got on board with me (this decision ultimately is his, too, seeing as we are turning into one here in a few months), and when Gavin's parents got on board (their support is also important to me).
So today is a meeting with a committee at church that works on the church visioning. I've got statistics and testimonys from other churches and cute little packet all put together... and more than anything, I've got teh confident that this is not just MY plan, this not just MY vision, this is the biggest thing that I've ever been a part of. I'm a littler nervous, but I'm mostly excited!!! I can't wait to see what God has for this new adventure for my church and all the kids that will be involved!!
Its not so secret that about a year ago I felt God was calling me to leave the school I was working at. I felt that little whisper on my heart and when I would acknowledge the whisper it felt like it got confirmed by others so when my contract came around to sign, I confidently turned it away knowing that I had a new path this year.
Then this fall no job came. I was very confused because I still had the confident "this is for a reason" feeling, but I had no "Reason" in sight.
I did, however, continue to pray. I opened my heart up to the possibility that God was working bigger than just a "new job" and started really tunning into the possibility that the whisper wasn't going to guide me to another school district- and it'd didn't.
You see my long term goals were to someday work in prechool. I absolutely adored my time working in the preschool. I love the kids, I love the singing, I love the type of learning that goes on in the school... I just always felt this was something I would wait until I had kids to do. But why?
I will spare the details of how God pulled on my heart on Sundays in sermons or meetings that mentioned the need for outreach and church growth and how He nudged me a little when I would talk about my long term goals as if there was no way they would work at this time.
I will tell you though that one I day I asked him if this could all be related. If He was maybe telling me that my goal to have a preschool and His goal to grow my church could somehow be tied together... I heard a yes. I have heard a lot more yeses over the past several weeks as I've researched and began working up my formal proposal to my church. A big yes was when my mom got on board with me (she's always worked with preschool age children, is an early childhood specialist, and oh yeah, opened a church preschool 25 years ago that was very successful), when Gavin got on board with me (this decision ultimately is his, too, seeing as we are turning into one here in a few months), and when Gavin's parents got on board (their support is also important to me).
So today is a meeting with a committee at church that works on the church visioning. I've got statistics and testimonys from other churches and cute little packet all put together... and more than anything, I've got teh confident that this is not just MY plan, this not just MY vision, this is the biggest thing that I've ever been a part of. I'm a littler nervous, but I'm mostly excited!!! I can't wait to see what God has for this new adventure for my church and all the kids that will be involved!!
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