Days are passing by so quickly. Not much left to do now, and I’m not feeling completely overwhelmed. One of the most valuable lessons I have learned during the various stages of planning a wedding is letting go. Full-on hands in the air, turn around and walk away, plugging your fingers in your ears…okay, that may sound like avoidance. But I promise you it’s a big step for me, Elizabeth, obsessive-compulsive perfectionist. I think everything about my personality would make me great at planning other people’s weddings or events, but my own? It’s just too close. So glad that we brought in a wedding planner early on. I’d likely have been committed by now had we not.

So what have I been doing lately? Not worrying. Letting the waves of details and deadlines wash over me and not getting carried away. That’s big for me, people.

Tomorrow marks 3 weeks until the wedding. Three weeks. Then I will be the wife of the only man I’ve ever loved, ever kissed, ever been able to stand being around for more than 12 hours (as a general rule, I prefer not to spend more than 12 hours with a person. There are few that I’ve met that won’t annoy you before that point. He doesn’t annoy me. Ever. How disgusting is that?). I’m thrilled.

And how am I celebrating this 3 week marker? My dear friend, Nume, and I are going to a spa in Oklahoma City to have our cares massaged away and our hands and feet all prettied up. It’s going to be a great weekend!

Much like my grandmother, as a small child I was under the impression that this was what life in the big city was like:

While I have never encountered anything quite like it, this gives me hope that one day we can live in a world where it’s okay for me to run down the street and burst into song. Whereas right now they’d cart me off to Griffin.

April 29 – May 5! With special recognition going out to May 6 and 7 who almost made it inside this crazy week, but deserve a special award all their own.

For the next few days I am prepping for Kevin’s mom’s visit this weekend. She arrives Saturday evening, after our second to last premarital counseling session that morning. Sunday we’ll be up for brunch at Café Plaid in Norman. We’re not going to make it to church that morning because we’d have to leave service early to make it to Duncan on time. Heather and her mom are meeting us there for brunch and then following us down to Duncan, where we’ll go to my parents’ home church for our wedding shower! Yay! I’m excited about that.

After the shower we’ll be heading back to Norman and then on to OKC to have dinner with Susan (Kevin’s mom) and then drop her off to stay in OKC that evening before she flies back out the next day.

Of course, Monday we’re all back to work, then that evening we have a fundraiser that my workplace is doing at a restaurant here in Norman. It’s benefitting the American Cancer Society and if you’re in Norman and would be interested in attending, please email me!

Tuesday we have our last premarital counseling session and Wednesday…it’s one month until the wedding. We’re going to go out on a date to celebrate and I’m pretty excited about that.

Outside of the winning week, but like I said, very deserving, May 7th is my bridal shower at Cuppies & Joe. Whee!