Friday, January 23, 2009

So here come the updates. Sheila was just writing about all the big changes that are happening very quickly and, indeed, we've really seen big shifts in our thinking. It's been sobering to think about life less in terms of one's own ambitions, but how the ambitions of two people can be joined together. The changes that have happened over the last year that are bringing us to an early wedding date and an early time in our lives were not really things we could have foreseen or predicted then, but had to trust that in the right time, things would fall into place. So it's been a trying, but also miraculous, year for us both.

Below, I've attached some photos taken last month when we got together with Sheila's bridesmaids to work on assembling the invitations for the wedding. Enjoy!



I was obviously the hardest-working member of the assembly team.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

It's 2009!
Mikhail and I were talking on the phone the other day about how, after the passing of the new year, everything seems accelerated. The wedding plans are gearing up, decisions need to be made, weekends in Montreal need to be planned, dates need to be set and there are just over 200 days left until The Day. In addition to all of those things, an apartment in Hamilton needs to be found for the fall for the two of us, plans need to be made for moving and getting a car, summer plans need to be solidified...There's just too much to think about.
Honestly, it still feels a little whirlwind, a little hard to believe. We're both still incredulous at the fact that we're at this stage in life, that we're not kids, or teens, or "just university students" anymore. I remember thinking, one year ago, that there was so long until we could be married. We weren't sure a year ago when the wedding would happen or what it would look like. And looking forward even now, August seems such a long way away. At the same time, it's all coming a little too fast. And even though Pastor Chan has assured us repeatedly in pre-marital counseling that we're ready for this, and that because we're pledged to each other that we're pretty much already married, it still feels a bit strange to me to think of myself as a wife.
I'm really a grownup now.