Stop and take a breather

From October 26 until December 27 my life was consumed with all things involving weddings, anniversary celebrations, and celebrations. To begin with, Will and Gillian decided to get married. The wedding was a my house and I had four days to plan, execute, and prepare all the food and decorations for a wedding that would involve 45 guests. Throw Thanksgiving into the mix as the next major event followed shortly by a wedding at my house for Annacarmie and Stephen. This time I had a little longer to plan and prepare for this event on December 5. Christmas follows this wedding shortly. Two days after Christmas I hosted a 50th anniversary celebration for my parents.


Mother, aka Mimi wanted a big celebration to celebrate and she made those wishes had been made known many months before the event. Plans started very well as I began working on things in January 2009. I had a schedule planned for what I would do each month of 2009 so as to not be so overwhelmed at the last minute. Those plans were good and I was able to stay on schedule until some very severe issues came up in my family in May. Those issues derailed everything in my life. Because of that I was really behind and did not get all the things done I had planned on making for Mother and Daddy.

Invitations were complete with envelopes addressed by February. A change of locations at the last of October required the invitations be done over before they were mailed. The stress was beginning to take a toll on everyone at my house but they were redone and all was well as they were dropped into the mail box.

There was not scrapbook of their 50 years together. I guess that will be a gift for another time when I can seem to find time to finish it. The other thing I really wanted to do for them was a DVD that played music on the TV. The DVD was a nightmare. We ended up getting a virus on two different computers as a result of the pictures. That stopped us from working to finish the DVD during the last week. I am not one to give up so with determination I began trying to finish the DVD Sunday morning before the guests arrived at 2:00pm. By 9:00 am I had done all I could do and called it quits. The pictures that were already scanned were the ones I used. No one else knew but me; however, I was very disappointed because the DVD did not turn out like I wanted. At this time I had no choice but to let things go whether I liked it or not.

The party turned out very well. Both Mother and Daddy were pleased with every thing but it was just not what I had wanted to do for them. After all they deserve my best and I do not feel I did my best for this. However, in my heart I know I did all I could do. For some one with a type A personality that is also OCD there were other things that I wanted to do.

Mamma Kim