I haven't written anything in a month and I figured it was time to update. Next week will get super busy and I don't know when I'll be able to do it next!
Wedding, wedding, church, wedding, work, Skype, wedding, wedding. That's what I feel like the past month has been for both of us. It's a good thing though! It makes time fly by which is such a blessing! Now we're nearing the home stretch of all the time we've put in to making it the greatest day of our lives! I couldn't be more excited!
It's my last week as a nanny. I thought it would be emotional, but it's just been peaceful. I'm making the most out of this busy week with them and I've reflected a lot on the past year I've had with them. When I started Sofie was 3 and Madison was just crawling. Sofie is now 4 and Madison is 3 months shy of being 2. How much these girls have grown before my eyes! It's been such an incredible experience being there for some of Madison's firsts. I've tried to capture these magic moments on camera to give to their parents. I don't want them to ever feel like they're missing out anything! Chris and Elizabeth are the best. I have been so blessed to be able to get this job. I have such a love for them and for the special moments we've shared. I don't know if I would consider them a father/mother type figure, but not a brother/sister either. More of an uncle/aunt. I really will miss them, but I look forward to the phone calls and emails that will definitely occur.
Matthew has been working so hard. As much as it stinks to not be able to talk to him as much during the week, I wouldn't trade it. I see such a sense of fulfillment and pride as he gets that paycheck or calls me after a shift. It's been good for him. School is out on Wednesday and he is so excited! Haha I don't enjoy it much myself, but I know how important it is as does he. It will be such a great thing for our family once it is completed.
So now we have 11 days. That's it. It all hit me. That's just over a week and a half. Not long at all. I get to see Matthew in 9 days. Tears well up and threaten to spill over every time I think of seeing my best friend again. I just imagine this perfect movie scene. I wait anxiously and stare at all the people coming into the airport. It feels like forever, but finally there he is! I run to him, not caring at all who is staring or what people are thinking, and jump into his arms as he picks me up and we share that perfect kiss. I wish I was that gutsy. Haha a kiss will definitely be there, but maybe not so dramatic(:
It's been a very long and tough 11, almost 12, weeks. There have been moments of weakness where all I can do is hit my knees, cry, and pray that time will go faster. That he will be safe. That I can have peace. I know we're where we're suppose to be and doing those things that will point us to the temple where we will be sealed for time AND all eternity.
I feel like I'm on top of the world right now. As time gets closer I get more and more excited yet emotional. A new life. A new state. A new family. A new everything. But I will have my husband who I know will be my companion and my rock. That is enough to keep me going every single day.
