A few updates… went to drum circle this weekend, which was enjoyable. The boys didn’t want to go this time so Boy #1 spent the night at his friend’s house and Boy #2 hung out with my cousin (and was an angel!). I made chicken tortilla soup and peanut fudge brownies.
My mom sent me a clone of my wedding dress - a muslin version for me to try on. Even without it’s decorations, it is beautiful. It fit fine. Now I need to measure the straps and send them back to her. However, I have no huge rush to take care of this now (don’t worry, mom, I will send it back soon), because we are going to postpone the wedding.
Basically, we reviewed our finances and budget for wedding, reception, honeymoon, etc., and decided it would be, well, fairly impossible to throw a respectable wedding reception this year. So, we’re going to reschedule the whole thing and push it back til next year. We’re already married by law, and in spirit, so while it disappoints us to do it, it’s not the end of the world. Hopefully next year we’ll be able to manage our money better and plan accordingly.
By the way, we were not planning on sharing this information with my step-mom. Why? Earlier this year, she said she couldn’t make the wedding because she had to do the photography for her nephew’s wedding, which was on the same day (even though we’d had our day picked for almost a year or more). Against my husband’s opinion, I offered to move our wedding date so that they could still attend. It was up in the air for a little while, possibly even moving to June. Then she came back and said not to worry about it because her nephew had moved his date back to later in September, so we could keep the 6th.
Just recently, in the last few weeks, my step-mom said again that she would be going to his wedding on the 6th. I reminded her that she said it was moved to the 20th, and she just seemed confused on how that could have happened. She said that she would have to see if, depending on timeframes, she could attend both weddings in the same day (even though the locations are at least 4 hours apart), and if she couldn’t, she would have to make a decision about which one to attend.
So, we’re just going to leave it out there as if the wedding is going on, just to see if she will plan to attend ours or her nephew’s.
Next challenge… we’ve been discussing having Dad homeschool the boys full time instead of my step-mom, for various reasons. He recently decided that yes, he is up for the job. He would continue to work evenings as scheduled and I would move my working hours to 6 to 2:30 to accomodate. We hadn’t yet decided when to begin this plan.
And then… last night my dad calls and says I need to find someone to watch the boys for the next few days. My stepmom is in the hospital due to chest pains, possibly a heart attack. He insinuates that this hospital visit is caused by stress caused by worrying about the boys (this is a whole different story). I don’t respond to this insinuation. So, today begins the 6 to 2:30 shift instead.
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