I have to smile when I read my last post. That was written at the beginning of a stretch of rainy weather than wore even the hardiest souls down. I feel certain that it rained for at least 10 days in a row. That's not so bad in itself, but here in the heart of Dixie we don't have real dirt. A nasty red clay covers the ground masquerading as dirt. Most of the time it's tolerable. But when it rains and rains and rains, the clay turns into a sloppy, nasty, squishy mess. Even that is not so bad, unless you have as many drivers as we do. We have more cars than driveway, and we park in our yard. I know that makes us sound like a neighbor you want to avoid, but we live out in the middle of a field with only one family to view our parking habits, and they don't mind. But back to my story. When it rains for days on end, our yard turns into a lake/swamp and parking in the yard is not a smart idea. During those times we HAVE to find a way to make all the cars and our fifteen passenger van fit into the driveway...and it works for the most part. Making it work, however, makes me grumpy. I'm glad the rain finally ended.
Eric's birthday was last Wednesday, but we celebrated it Sunday afternoon so most of the family could be here. I love having everyone over! We had lasagna, garlic bread sticks, and salad for lunch. Sara made a chocolate sponge cake which turned out very well. I love it when Jesse and his family come over. Savanna comes in and excitedly runs to whoever she sees first, calling out "nanny" or "poppie" depending on who it is. She'll jump up into our arms and kiss us....makes life worthwhile. Later we played a trick on mommie, hiding under a blanket so she wouldn't see us. Savanna just laughed and laughed as mommie looked for us and couldn't find us =) Jeremiah has grown so much since Christmas, and he has a smile that lights up the room. It won't be much longer before he joins Savanna and Khy in their play. It's good to be a grandma.
We are getting into serious wedding planning. Saturday, Rebekah and I went shopping for wedding supplies. We were able to buy the guest book, invitations and flowers for the bridesmaid bouquets for 50% off. Her colors are royal blue and yellow, and she was able to find artificial roses in a lighter blue and yellow color. She made the bouquets last night, and I must say they look very nice. There is still so much to do...but it will all come together. I'm getting excited. But I will miss Rebekah and Khy very much. Maybe Joe could just move in with us after they are married =)
I'm not making a dent in my bucket list. It's so easy to sit and rattle off a list of grand ideas, but the day to day effort needed to make it happen is a little harder. I started working on my 4 x 8 garden boxes before the rain began, and I haven't touched them since. I've thought about bringing them into the house to finish painting. It's time to start plants indoors, and I haven't started that either. All in good time, I guess. It will be no great tragedy if I don't get it done, and not getting a wedding pulled together will be. I don't think I even put the wedding on my bucket list. Silly me.
