A year ago today, my obsessions were: picking up my wedding dress from the seamstress, tying our programs with a thousand little black bows, the arrival of 300 calla lilies I had ordered for my do-it-yourself centerpieces, and generally running around like a bridal maniac.
In the past year, we’ve bought our first home and moved to a new town, found out we were going to be blessed with our first child and about 2 months after finding out about the baby, I got a promotion and changed offices within my company, starting a new job. It’s been quite the year for C and I.
Today my obsessions are: what this munchkin will look like, what memories we’ll make as a family, what it will take for me to be a good mom and generally preparing for the arrival of our little one.
Amazing now how looking back it really wasn’t all that important that the font matched on all of our wedding stationary, or that the flowers were arranged “just so”. When you realize that you’re about to bring a tiny new person into this world, your priorities tend to shift around. I’m much more interested in talking to my husband our future – our long term, rocking on the porch when we’re in our 70’s future – than I am about the little stuff. Those little details, the nitty gritty stuff, it doesn’t seem to hold the same weight as it once did.
Don’t get me wrong…. we had a beautiful, wonderful, magical wedding day that I wouldn’t change for the world. I’m just much happier now to be planning “forever”.
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