Today was a very pleasant day that seemed to combine exactly what I am now as a college student and what I will become as a fireman's wife. This morning I woke up to my best friend and roomie, Katie, playing me a funny birthday song on her computer. (Though my day didn't revolve soley around my birthday, it was lovely.) After classes ended at twelve, Mom and John visited and Josh drove over the bridge from Mount Pleasant so we could all go look at the ceremony / reception locations and enjoy a lunch at Sticky Fingers with some of my friends for my birthday.
The moment that seems to stick with me most from today was visiting at the Palmer Home. As we moseyed through the antique-filled room with large windows over looking the bay, planning where to place chairs and how to walk with grandfathers, I realized that I have already moved into my own life just as any little girl would wait to "grow up". I am there. And then I realized that everything, person, situation and event before the moment I stand up there and say my vows to the most amazing man I have ever known, has made me who I am today. Taking pictures of the room to remember for the small additions of decorations, we snap a picture in front of the alcove where we will become man and wife. Looking back at those pictures at the end of today I realized that I am the luckiest woman on earth in every aspect of my life. I have many parents and grandparents who would go to the moon for me, as well as aunts and uncles. I have genuine friends who take care of me and help me to keep my sanity. I have my health, a roof over my head every night, food in my stomach for each meal, and I am getting a valued education. Mostly though, I am planning my life along with my best friend; a man who understands me and accepts me for exactly who I am, but also loves me for it.
While we posed for the picture to test the light, background, and placing of everyone, Josh and I look at each other and smile. Not only are we smiling though, I'm near laughing I'm so overcome with wonderful emotions and looking into his eyes I see it all. We are exactly were we want to be. We are lucky, loved and happy. It won't always be this way but we expect that. If it isn't rough or bumpy along the way, it won't be worth sticking through. Walking with him today, and plotting reception details with Mom and John just makes me all that much happier as I see our day. The wedding isn't my whole life this year, in fact I wish I had more time in each day to look for things I like or dislike in various senarios, but the little bits and pieces I have and Josh's smile today say it all. Anyone can read anything we think when we smile.
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