Several Accomplishments
So, last night I got home from work and saw mom for the first time since Kyle and I got engaged. This went poorly, as expected. For one, she’d alreaedy taken her pain medicine for her hip which was broken in December so she was pretty out of it and more irritable than usual. We talked for a little while and she got very upset that I want to get married so soon because she didn’t think that would be the case at all and said as much. Then she tried to talk me out of because of some rational reasons like health insurance. Eventually we just went to bed in disagreement and I called Kyle. Mostly, I think, I appreciated her opinions but I was just really stressed out because I want to be planning my wedding and getting excited about being engaged to the person i want to spend the rest of my life with, and its hard to do that when someone keeps telling you you’re an idiot for getting the wedding part over with and moving on to the marriage part. Also, I want to share this excitement with my mom! I only get one proposal, one ring, and one engagement and I’d be much more satisifed if mom was as excited as I am about all three… and waited a few days to get upset about the date (rather than the 18 hours or so that it took her to express concern). So last night I was pretty upset, but then today things got better.
For one, I talked to my professors about it and they all seem to be in agreement that a shorter engagement is better. Or at the very least they expressed no concern about my getting married to Kyle so soon. This was comforting because I think they know me well enough to judge whether or not this engagement will tear me away from my plans for studies in the future, which is another of my mom’s major concerns, and it’s good to have their backing that I’m dedicated enough to get it done.
Also, I called the church so that I could figure out what needs to be done to start setting a date. They said I’d need to be a registered member so I went there and got that taken care of so we can get on to the date-setting part. Hooray! When I got there a group of high schoolers followed me in. I figured they were like a church youth choir or something getting back from a day of singing valentines. But then when I told Dolores that I was there to register, she asked if it were a joke. I said no… and then i was like “oh… they’re not with me.” so she asked what they were there efor and they said they had a singing Valentine. We all went into the back room where the Father Jon was meeting with some women. They sang “earth angel” and there was a cute dog who is apparently named Joseph. Father said “Joseph knew that one cos I sing it to him every night.” which made me smile and know that this is the right church and the right priest for our wedding. Dolores then told him that I had just shown up to register to be a member and so he stood up and shook my hand and said hi and I explained that I’d been attending for a few years but hadn’t really thought to register but I just got engaged and they told me that I’d need to be registered. And he said “oh so I’ll be seeing more of you, then?” It made me super happy. I’m excited to sit down with Kyle and Father Jon and figure out all the ins and outs of the sacrament I am about to embark upon!
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I used to attend assumption when my family went to mass. it’s a nice place. my little brothers and cousins were all baptized there.