Who knew...
That a catholic 8th grade graduation would be a celebration mass? Well not me that is for sure. R's (I think is) cousin graduated from 8th grade this weekend and I was told the ceremony wouldn't be that long and then we would go to that party. So I got dressed up and over to his house at 11:30 Sunday morning to ride over with his mom and brother. I wouldn't call 2 hours a short ceremony...especially since it was a ton of stuff I have never seen before; sit down, stand up, respond, kneel (3 times!) sing, wait for communion to get done. Now I spent a lot of time in church till the day I turned 18...and never did we do some of this stuff. So Sunday was the first catholic service experience for me.
Saturday R and I went to the Evanston Farmer's Market bought some nice stuff then bummed around downtown for a while (I bought the cutest purse)and then I went home. I showed his mom my dress for the wedding and she loved it so it is a go...and now I don't have to go shopping! He even has a shirt that will look really good with it he says.
Friday night after work I headed over to R's house to do dinner with the family, which lasted till almost 10pm, then watched a movie before falling asleep The man is such a gentleman that I had no problem falling asleep with him. Then in the morning we got up and went to market.
Next weekend R and I will be going to J-ville and staying at the trailer for the weekend. It was the plan to go up for my dress fitting, but that got moved since the groom's mom is having a stint put in on tuesday. BUT Dee called on saturday to say that she is having a b-day party for Grandma, so we are still going up to go to that. This will be that first time we are somewhere completely alone, and while I am not really worried about it I am feeling nervous/excited by it. We had a talk about things we like/don't like this weekend so I'm feeling a little better about how slow he is taking things right now. What I am really nervous is him meeting my whole family. I have tried to explain how crazy they are, but I just don't think he is getting it.
Posted in: General Life on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 9:04 AM
