Everything is Changing!

This weekend is almost over and I am not ready to go back to work tomorrow. I have a bunch of administrative work to do before school tomorrow and I really would rather blog! Thursday morning I tried to drive to work and my car started billowing smoke. I was pretty close to home so I turned around and parked in front of my house. That is where the car has sat since then. RIP Alero : ( We spent the day Thursday at the car dealership, and with J's name on the home loan and the closing date later this month he couldn't put his name on the car loan, so the car loan is in my name! We bought a 2010 Ford Escape XLT. It is the car I always dreamed, but never actually believed, I would have. I love it. I park it in the driveway and drive any chance I get- it's great1111

Because of the mortgage payments and the car payments we are pretty tightly budgeted out for the next few months. This means less eating out and more eating in. Friday night I made baked potato soup, recipe from a friend of mine, and it was excellent. Saturday I made chicken pot pie and tonight I made beef stroganoff. Tomorrow we are going to go for a leftover/potato soup combination when J gets home from class. I like making food, cooking is fun!

Saturday I went shopping at the outlets with two of my bridesmaids and a friend from college. It was good to get out and see the girls. I found a great pair of jeans and bought some grapefruit spoons. So good to see my friends, and made me so much more excited about the wedding and how much fun it will be!

Today J and I went to church and then met with the priest to start our marriage prep. I have to call tomorrow and make reservations for a class (hopefully sooner than later). When we got home we decided to address Save-The-Dates. My address list is *almost* complete, I am missing a handful of addresses. We addressed 58 envelopes (only 2 oopses) and I need to go to Staples tomorrow to buy 40 more envelopes. I don't know what happened to my small guest list...but I guess it is great that so many people will be able to share our special day. Then we started packing up some boxes of books (I think we are up to 15 boxes) and labeling them with contents and intended room. We need to order more boxes because we ran out and there are still MORE books. We are going to spend over $1000 simply on bookshelves....I can feel it. This stuff will make the trip with us over February break when we close on the house.

Tomorrow will be an interesting day at work. Mondays always are. We start off the day with science class at 8 a.m. which could be a good thing or a bad thing. Hopefully the kids are in positive space!