Blog:Monday - So Much To Look Forward To.

What are four things/events on your calendar that you are anticipating?

I feel like, typically, I am a very calendar-checking, list-making, type A kinda person. So, while regularly checking my monthly pocket calendar, a leather bound 'planner,' a google calendar, and an iPod calendar, I find that there are always things that I am looking forward to.

I try to balance with this alwaysexcitedforthenextbigthing syndrome with enjoying the moment that I'm in and not wishing away the present. It's hard, but I'm trying.

So, looking at my collection of calendars/planners/electronic schedules, I have the following four things, that I am currently looking forward to.

1. August 11, 2010
This date will mark three years from the day that Bry and I said "I Do!" I love remembering this day. Although we don't have a traditional celebration that we've done consistently over the last two years, the one thing that usually takes place is that we watch our wedding DVD together. I LOVE doing this. We will probably go out for a nice dinner together or something more this year. But I will most look forward to watching the wedding DVD and to remembering that sweet day in 2007 when I walked down the aisle to a new life with my favorite boy.

2. August 20, 2010
Double birthday celebration for my two favorite nephews. Isaac will be turning 4 this year! I seriously can't even believe I just wrote that. Andrew will be turning 2. And that two year span means that it's time for baby #3! Coming November 15, 2010. Another date I can't wait for!





3. August 28, 2010
Veenstrapalooza. The Bangles are starting a new tradition of getting together as much of us as possible each summer. Last year we met in Cincinnati and this year we are meeting up in Grandville. I'm excited to host the big event this year, but I am just most excited to be together with some of my most favorite ladies on the planet. I've already thought of about 136 things that we can do together. Girls, be ready!

4. September 2, 2010
Epic concert event at Comerica Park - Jay Z and Eminem. Need I say more?! Well, actually, I kinda do. Not only is this concert going to be history-making, but it will be an event shared by 5/6 Bangles and associated husbands. Also, my brother Bri will be coming up from Florida to attend. With these performers and this group, it truly will be EPIC.

And these events only cover the next two months! Man, I could go on and on. But I'll stop there and enjoy the fact that, in this moment, the house is quiet, I'm sitting in the living room writing my heart out, my best pup is sawing logs next to me, and I'm about to go to sleep in a bed with clean sheets. Life is good now. And life will be good in the next two months.

blessed by the now and the what's yet to come.
Katie