Life - After the Wedding!

In a series...a Facebook post

Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 1:48am
Well...it is over. Chase and Lacey are now married and the wedding and reception have come and gone - but the marriage still goes on! The wedding was beautiful, Lacey was a beautiful bride and Chase a very handsome groom. The wedding party all behaved themselves and looked impeccable! I made it through the wedding without throwing up (even though I spent most of the "getting ready" time on the bathroom floor trying to recover from some unknown illness which caused me to lose my cookies violently)! I made a vow that if I could get up and be at the wedding and hopefully part of the reception, that I was not going to care what happened or didn't happen as far as our plans...just to be there was my goal. My family and dear friends did an awesome job in pulling it all together and everything was perfect. My dear friends and the bridesmaids who knew I was sick (and kept it from the bride!), prayed for me and I know that is why I was able to pull myself together and walk down the isle on my own groom's arm - I'm sure that my sister-in-law's help of "anti-throw-up" syrup helped, too! The day was pretty much perfect...but NONE of it happened by accident! People who love me and Mickey, Chase and Lacey, and the church just came out of the wood works to make sure it was an awesome day of celebration to be remembered. God provided a beautiful day - cool breeze and sunny skies - after a spring of heavy rains and flooding and saturating the ground! Chase and his best buds mowed and worked on the grounds and our friends, the Gillmores worked magic on the muddy gateway to the parking area to solve our last problem! The tent was whopper-jawed but still "looked" safe enough and beautiful from the highway! The dance floor was worth the trouble and money and everyone had fun! I want to name people and express my gratitude, but there are too many!So...away they rode into the sunsets of Jamaica!Mickey and I spent the next week just returning things and tying up loose ends and resting. On Sunday following the wedding we sadly said goodbye to Ozlem and Sebastian, our German friends, and to Aaron and Kelly and our precious grandsons. It was also our dear friend, Mark's, last day at our church...NOW...we have several busy things to do this summer, but mostly we are trying to figure out what we must do for the Kingdom and how God is directing us. Some unexpected things have happened...Chase and Lacey are now acting as Youth Interns for our church for the summer and so they are living in Batesville and attending First Baptist with us. Many of our ministry jobs cross over and we are weeding through to see how that will all work. Mark is gone. For five years, he has been a huge part of our lives...in ministry, family, and personally. We spent a lot of nights playing games, talking, and laughing (or crying) together. There is a void in that place that we aren't sure how to fill. In the immediate, we have to figure out transportation...I wrecked the Yukon.I hit the Sonic. That is right...I hit the Sonic...the building, and I took out a speaker along with it and messed up the Yukon pretty well. (I thank God that a car hop wasn't in my way!) DON"T drive in flip-flops!! It got hung on the gas and took it to the floor and there was nothing I could do! SO, the police came and investigated and turned in an accident report...only they got my name wrong and so "Betty White" ran into the Sonic...not me, apparently.Mickey is going to a sleep doctor specialist tomorrow...he apparently has idio something or another, hyper sleep disorder (I can't remember what it is really called). I don't believe it and so we shall see.We will be married 30 years on June 17 and he still likes me enough to take me to Florida on a mandatory work trip so that we can be together on our anniversary day. We are going to the Perspectives National Conference first and then fly out of LR for Florida. In August we will make a trip to Gulf Shores for Kevin and Amy's wedding...and a side trip to play some Settlers of Catan in Montgomery, Alabama! So...now that I've bored you to death with our lives...I think I'll go to bed with my own version of the elephant man (Mickey in a c-pap machine - that I LOVE!) Happy day to anyone who is psycho enough to read all of this!!