The Countdown and Sentiments that follow

Apologies for the long silence. I’ve been scribbling so much in my journal that blogging took second place in my writing sphere.

As for TODAY, the official conscious countdown has begun! It’s twelve days to the Big Day and at times going through the flow of the wedding sends my heart thumping at my throat! I’m sure all brides before me has the exact same anticipations as I have, at least there’s no sights or accounts of panic attacks or haywire frenzy!

We’re really glad we made the decision to cordon the last 2 weeks prior to the wedding for some R & R. For now, we’re guarding the hours to spend time with family and friends who have flown in from around the world to share in our milestone. We’re taking time to have heart to heart chats with family about the upcoming change. We’re seizing the moment where anticipation and expectation meet for a cuppa or round the dinner table. And then this weekend it’ll be just us, away from the city, schedules and checklists.

The next chapter into marriage is something I think about very much. Having stayed under the same roof with my family and having shared some grinding moments – we have all become closer over the years. Dad had a heart to heart talk to me about giving away his daughter, mom speaks to me about being a wife, Grandma looks longingly and probes that I come and visit as time permits, Ray constantly bugs me with having sleepovers at my place and Josh in his quiet nature ponders about his sister’s moving on. All of this for the better, the family is enlarging – legally, geographically, in perspective, at heart, in love.

Someone once said, “There’s something that does not change – that is change”. A firm believer in transformation without which there will be no growth – the days ahead will be undoubtedly bitter sweet initially but a greater wave of excitement awaits us. More on marriage and the life after… for now the countdown continues!