Salutations and Hello!

I am ashamed to say...it has been (gulp) 6 loooooong and very life changing months since I have sat down to write in my blog. Tisk tisk, and shame on me!

OK...moving on. So, A LOT has changed since I wrote last...so very quickly...let me make one of my favorite things: a list.

1. Adam and I are still living together...almost broke up completely due to reasons I won't go into detail about...but we are good.
2. Adam and I got engaged on Christmas Day! Yay! We are so excited and are currently planning our wedding. We have set a date...in August this year...so only 6 more measly months, and we have a lot to do!
3. I started my own in-home care company. Probably lots more to write about that as it comes about...especially my frustrations as a new business owner, and my wanting to throw my hands up and quit....but we will get through this. With the help and encouragement of you people...we will succeed! :)
4. I finally met Adam's mom...who came all the way from New York on a wintry 23 hour bus ride! She is amazing, and I am so thankful and blessed to be able to call her my future mother in law!

So, for now...that's all I can think of as far as what I would consider "major" events in my life in the last 6 months....well....all that I will write about on here. Those of you that are my close friends know there has been more...and I've been journaling about that stuff....and don't worry mom...everything is ok. Just don't want the everyone to know ALL of my business.

Let's sit back and talk for a minute...how are you guys? I've missed talking to you, and hearing from you, and I am so sorry that I haven't written sooner. Which brings me to a topic. Good ole' fashioned handwritten letters. I miss that. I miss running to my mailbox in the hopes of getting a note from someone...even if they lived around the block from me, it was fun to write back and forth, and it was even better anticipating the next one coming. Today, with information at the touch of a button, and technology constantly evolving...we can send a quick text, or chat message...and boom! We have communication. What happened to face time? I miss that too. It is sad to say, but our grandmothers are the only ones that are left, it seems, that will have stacks of neatly tied bundles of letters....love ones from their spouses, and general letters from friends that they will be able to look back on. What has happened to us? Why can't we just slow down?

Speaking of slowing down....life has a way of speeding up when you least expect it. Sometimes it seems you are floating along effortlessly, and then all of a sudden, life takes a hard right turn, and all you can do is hold on. That's sorta how I feel with this whole owning my own business thing. I had resigned my position at the Comfort Keepers in Hiram, and moved to the Douglasville office in hopes of buying the business from the owner. I kept hitting walls, and without divulging too much information here....my previous boss and I just didn't get along. Realizing that I wasn't going to be able to buy her business, I reached out to a friend of mine who had her own in-home care business, for some guidance and where to start to get mine started. In the meantime, my sister had been looking for office space for her photography studio, and what seemed like a collision of natural events...I had an office space to share, and an offer for a co-partner in a business of my own. And just like that....life just hit the gas pedal and has been going 100 miles a second ever since. Don't get me wrong...I am very thankful...but wow!

On to the marriage stuff: The best way I can express all this is through another list:

1. I am fat and WILL NOT be fat on my wedding day.
2. I only have 6 months to become NOT FAT.
3. Did I mention I have only 6 months?
4. I am excited!
5. Its gonna be a small one...no more than 50 people. We aren't showy people...
6. We are paying for this wedding on our own...did I mention 6 months left?
7. My engagement ring is amazing and even more special knowing the meaning behind it and where it came from. (its huge too...2 carat solitaire)
8. I am more in love than I ever even thought existed, and I am so happy to be marrying my best friend.
9. I will not be fat, I will not be fat, I will not be fat.
10. Think peacock feather....those are our colors! Pretty....

Welp folks...I must get going. I promise not to be so long next time...in the meantime...if you have any "not fat" tips, or even any caterers, or helpful information for a wedding...send me a note, yo!

Until next time...and I'm sure I will not be as fat then....peace, and kisses to my readers!

Amy