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Oct 12, 2025    |      0 comments

Phew…a day of Rest!

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The wedding was beautiful. The night went long with clean up.

And this morning, everyone flew out to return home.

I remain at my grandmother’s house until tomorrow to get it all cleaned up. I will pick up Addie from the kennel and hit the road tomorrow afternoon to spend one more night at my younger daughter’s place in Atlanta before I began meandering road trip back to Texas.

Today I will rest. And go to my storage unit to pick up the things I need to take back with me…

  1. Winter clothes or at least something fall-y, Texas doesn’t typically get cold.
  2. Some books.
  3. Craft supplies.

I made sure to leave plenty of my car for the return trip to take back some stuff. As of now, I don’t have any plans to return to Georgia, so trying to think future.

After the last week, I need this down day. Desperately.

What’s Next

After I get back to my parents I have one month until Beauty and her husband Redhead arrive for Thanksgiving. During that month, I have one big goal…clean out the “catch all” room. The closet is piled high with boxes full of paperwork and ??  and we’ve just kind of piling things in their that don’t have a home.

The goal is to have the room guest ready before they arrive. Outside of the garage and my mom’s closet, it’s the last space in the house that I have not cleaned out and rearranged.

So for today, I will rest. Retrieve the list of things I’ve compiled from my storage unit. And finish getting ready to head back to Texas tomorrow.

Can’t wait to share the wedding pics…or at least a few of them!

Oct 9, 2025    |      0 comments

Everyone Arrives Today

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The wedding is this weekend!! My boys all fly in today along with my youngest brother and his girlfriend. (With my mom’s health, no one else from Texas felt comfortable making the trip. It’s sad, but we all understand.) We’ve got set up and the rehearsal dinner tomorrow afternoon. The wedding and reception on Saturday. Then everyone flys back out Sunday. A really quick trip.

But I’m so excited to have all my kiddos here for 48 hours. I’m headed down to Atlanta today to shuttle them back tonight. We will all spend the night at my grandmother’s house.

Outside of working this week, I’ve made several trips back and forth to Beauty’s house to tote things for the wedding over so it’s ready for tomorrow’s set up. (She and Redhead live about 40 minutes from here.)

Who knew how emotional and stressful a wedding can be?!? Another argument in my book for why I never wanted one. I just wasn’t one of those girls who ever dreamed of or planned a wedding. (Yes, I know this isn’t about me. It’s all about Beauty; these are just my thoughts and takeaways. I am 100% here to support Beauty’s vision and dream.)

Beauty has done soo much work. She’s got such a clear vision of what she wants. And I am so impressed with how it’s all coming together.

day of order of events

Contingency Plan

We have had some scary moments, but we’ve been able to handle them quickly without too many arguments or meltdowns.

  1. The photographer cancelled last minute. Thankfully, I was able to get the photographer I’ve used for our family photos, the kids senior pics, and even Beauty’s bridal shower, so crisis averted. The challenge is that the photographer is not returning their deposit until after the wedding, so small panic mode, but we figured out how to handle.
  2. Due to them being incapacitated due to the wreck, some of the design pieces that they were going to do themselves had to be changed. The florist, one of my childhood friends, and our church family has been amazing at stepping up to help us pivot and get it in line with her vision.

It seems like every day has brought us a “emergency” to handle, but we got here, and I believe we are about ready.

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