Ramblings of a fool

It truly is the little things that make me happy! Today we went to Höganäs to get some things for my mum and while we were there I found these cute Moomin postcards. Those who know me know that I collect all things Moomin and so these had to go home with me. I'm planning on framing them at some point.

Next week is going to be one of those weeks, where I hope I'll be able to remember my own name by the time we get to Friday. Monday to Thursday I have 4 meetings and 17 parent-teacher conferences. The conferences are 20 minutes each and the meetings are everything from 30 minutes to two hours. On top of that, I also have my normal teaching schedule. So it's going to be busy, busy, busy. Luckily this past week hasn't been so busy, so hopefully I've saved up some energy for the long days. I usually get to work around 7.30am and my days will probably end around 7pm-8pm. So I bet I'll be pretty tired and not up to much apart from work. This is the typical scenario in Spring where we start getting ready for the next school year that starts in August. But things are a little different this year though, which was what I was on about in one of my previous blogs.

This week we also settled another thing that's been hanging over our heads: the catering for our wedding. I know we still have LOTS of time before the wedding, but it's still nice to have "the big things" sorted out in time. Our wedding is going to be very small, but since a big part of our guests are from Denmark and need to be accomodated there's one more thing to take into account. When you're trying to make ends meet with a very tight budget, it's awesome to have people who help out. My in-laws pulled a favour and helped us get a really nice deal on catering, so we're getting things the way we want them. A lot of things about the wedding have fallen into place and generally we've succeeded in getting it the way we want. I get butterflies everytime I think about October 21st and how lovely it's going to be. A friend of my family recently commented on my Facebook status that it would be nice if we could invite more guests and I guess in a way it would be, but I think people understand that we can't. I bet lots of people who were planning their wedding had the "Oh, I hope they won't be upset if we don't invite them"-moment and trust me, we've had many, many of those moments. I've felt guilty for having to select guests, but that's just the way it has to be when we're on the kind of budget we are. And besides our dream wedding is small, simple and private. So a long guest list was never even in the cards for us.

On another note I also have another party coming up. A 30th Birthday party. Guest of honour? Yours truly. Can you believe I'm turning 30 next month? I can't. I appriciate people saying that it isn't so bad and that 40 feels much worse, but I'm just going to say, once and for all: to me it feels absolutely horrible. My sweet mother is hosting a Birthday party for me though, which serves as a bit of a band-aid on the wound. Looking forward to celebrating with good friends and family.

I've rambled tonight, and those who are still with me deserve a medal. Thanks for reading - may you be blessed with sunshine.