Life as a Wife

Christopher and I ran across a new Monopoly a few days ago. It uses credit/debit cards instead of paper money and all the properties are updated by name and price. It looks really cool, and I’d like to play it just to see how well the card system works. But I do not believe it will actually help me enjoy Monopoly.

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Recipe of the Day

Cook and shred 5 or 6 chicken breasts.
Mix 16 oz. sour cream with two cans cream of chicken soup.
Mix chicken into sour cream and soup mix and pour evenly into 9X13 pan.

Melt two sticks butter and crush 80 Ritz Crackers into butter and mix.
Sprinkle buttered crackers evenly on top of chicken mix.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

I have heard that this recipe is also very tasty when you add broccoli to it although I have yet to try that for myself. Experiment with seasonings if you’d like but it is absolutely delicious if you follow the recipe exactly! (I’m sure some minced onions, garlic, and Tony’s Seasonings would make it taste even more amazing.)

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Thanksgiving is over (it was a lot of fun) and Christmas is only a week away! Reminds me of that song:

Wishing, hoping, boxes to open,
but we agreed it’s right to wait.
Turkey and dressing after the blessing
and there’s just a night to wait!
Round and round the Christmas tree,
opening presents with the family!
One for you and two for me!
Oh, what a Christmas Day!

Well, I thought of that song because somewhere in there, the guy sings, “Christmas a week away!”

Christopher and I will be spending his birthday and Christmas with my family and then we will leave for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York on the 26th. I’m sorry I don’t get to spend more time with my family but we are both soooooo excited to be going up north to see Christopher’s family. It’s been two years since we’ve seen some of them.

I’m a little nervous about Christmas with my family because, since we will all be together, it will be blantantly obvious that Mom is missing. I’m trying hard to remember why we celebrate Christmas instead of allowing myself to dwell on how different and difficult the celebration will be without Mom.

I hope everyone has a very happy Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our Lord.

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Wedding day is over!!! Christina and Thomas did a great job and it was a beautiful wedding. The wedding day, November 17th, marked exactly three months since Mom died, but we all just tried to keep our minds on the happy occassion. It was difficult. Now Christina and Thomas should be happily on their honeymoon cruise.

Dad took off yesterday morning about about 3:30 for Las Vegas to spend Thanksgiving with his family. He’s driving byhimself and he’s having a hard time. Mom was his navigator. He gets lost without her.

Christopher and I will be spending Thanksgiving with Granny and Papaw. It will be so different. I still don’t know what we will be doing for Christmas except for our trip to New England to visit all of Christopher’s family. I’m really looking forward to that.

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This weekend is Christina’s wedding, and boy am I ready to get that over with! I have been driving down to LA by myself nearly ever other weekend since August, and I am exhausted. This past weekend was her lingerie shower and bachelorette party. Both went well and were fun.

I am really proud of Christina for being able to pick up where Mom left off after Mom died. Christina has done a good job and I look forward to seeing her happily married.

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I just had to comment on the procession of Thursday posts. It struck me as funny. I’m grasping at anything to keep me laughing these days.

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Last night I dished out some ice cream for our brownie a la modes and I wanted to lick the ice cream spoon afterwards. I put my whole mouth over the spoon and my lip stuck to it! I ripped it off and then put my lips back on the spoon and they got stuck again! So I ripped my lip off again and noticed that some skin stayed behind on the spoon. I was tasting blood for a while after that. I can’t believe I put my lips on the spoon a second time after they got stuck the first time. I am such an idiot sometimes. My mom allways called me her dumb blonde child. The funny thing is that I am the only child who was NEVER blonde. Anyway, I had to laugh at myself for being so stupid. My dad did, too. When I asked why in the world I do such stupid things all the time Dad said, “Maybe so we’ll all have something to laugh about.”

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The memorial luncheon at New Hope went well last weekend. The two speakers were really great, and Christina, Granny, and I had a good time. It was a good weekend all around. Christopher and I got to hang out with Dad on Friday and on Saturday we finally got to spend some time with Sarah and Jarrod.

This week seems to have gone by so fast! It has been a really busy week. Monday was YBL’s banquet so I was dealing with that all day and the rest of this week I have been taking care of follow-up stuff. Things will slow down next week, though, and I’ll be back to being bored.

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It’s been about six weeks since Mom died. I’m getting better but I had another “moment” last night and again today when I received my sister’s wedding invitation and saw Mom’s name on it. I’ve been kind of dreading the arrival of the invitation for that very reason. They were made about a month before the surgery and no one ever dreamed that Mom would not be here. I feel so bad for Christina. And I really miss my mom. I always called her to tell her the silliest things. I bought a laundry hamper that had wheels while she was in the hospital and I kept thinking that I couldn’t wait to tell her. I never did get to. I’m 23, married, and hoping to start my own family, but I still need my Mom.

Law school for Christopher is going well. He is absolutely loving it and I am going crazy listening to all these cases! It’s cute and fun to see him all excited about what he’s reading and sometimes it is fun to discuss the cases with him and insert my opinion (not that it matters).

Christopher bought me an Ovacue last week and I will start using it soon. It will help track my cycles and tell me the best time to get pregnant. Yeah, we’re still trying. Unsuccessfully. But lately (since school started), I’ve been okay with not getting pregnant. We have no money to spare now, and I have no idea how we would provide for a baby. Who would keep the baby while I worked? Because I will have to work if C is still in school. How would we afford it all? But it would be nice to finally have our baby that we’ve been dreaming of for so long. I’m still not taking any meds and we are still trusting that God will bless us in His time. If His time is while C is still in school, than God will provide the means to provide for that baby.

So nothing new with me. We are going to LA tomorrow for a ladies’ luncheon my parents’ church is hosting in memory of Mom. I hope I can keep myself together.

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Mom developed a blood clot sometime after the surgery, but the doctors didn’t catch it until it had already killed her on Friday, August 17. Dad called me early that morning me to tell me the news. It plays over and over in my head, and I can’t get rid of it.

The funeral was Tuesday, August 21 and we buried her the next morning. Everything was perfect and beautiful, including Mom.

Tomorrow will be three weeks since Mom passed away, and it will also be my neice’s 2nd birthday. Mom bought a present and signed a card before she and Dad left for Florida.

The whole family is really struggling right now, but we are trying to keep our eyes fixed on God.

Christopher and I attempted to celebrate our anniversary in the midst of funeral preparations. We’ve been married two years now.

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