Miss Cox no more

This may be my last entry as Jennifer Cox. It's kind of sad. haha I've always been Jennifer Cox. As a teacher, your last name IS your name. Miss Cox no more! My students were ready to call me by my new last night. :o) It's going to sound so weird saying my name with my new last name. I refuse to say until it's mine. I can be a little superstitous. I really don't have time to even sit and write this but I often find myself needing a break. This week seems so surreal. It felt like it would never get here and now that it has arrived, it feels like it came too quickly! Not sure if that makes sense to you or not. You'll have to excuse my brain if I'm all over the place in this entry as my mind is racing with a thousand things that I should be doing or that I am trying not to forget.

This is such a bittersweet time for me. It's hard to believe that the years have gone by so quickly. I remember elementary school and here I am ...about to embark on such a fantastic journey with the man that I feel I've loved my entire life. However did I get to be so lucky and blessed? I'm unsure but I definitely don't take any of it for granted. I'm gaining a wonderful family and my parents love Brendan.

The only sad part of this day for me is that my MeMa is not physically in attendance. It breaks my heart that she won't be there. When she passed away, I remember crying and screaming no that it's not supposed to be like this because she's supposed to be there to see me graduate, get married, and have kids. This is a happy time in my life and I know she would be proud and love Brendan. I know her presense will be felt. It's just hard to accept sometimes that she's no longer with us.

Things are non stop as of now getting things completed. One thing I can say for myself that I'm glad I did, was ORGANIZATION! haha I was pretty on top of things so right now, I'm not so incredibly stressed because I know I've done what needs to be done. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that I won't forget anything! That's my biggest fear right now. That I will leave something behind. So word of advise, don't listen to that "you've got time" line, do as much as possible, as soon as possible so when the day comes, you can relax a little more!

Nine, 9, nueve, neuf, IV MORE DAYS!

Not really much to update on seeing as to basically everything is done at this point. My to do list would say other wise. Sleeping has become an issue as I wake up every morning about 3 am thinking of all the things that need to get done. Stressed = Jenn

95% of the gifts are bought and wrapped! My cards to attendants have been written. Brendan still has some work to do. Family is starting to come I think this weekend and all next week. Next week is going to be full out wedding mode. My stomach is in a constant knot. I just want things to go smoothly and for my nerves to take a hike!

My mom is in full force momzilla mode getting things finalized and done. She's freaking me out! haha I bet I get 10 calls a day from her. I'm ready to go home to her so that we can have our time together. We've got an agenda full of things to get done. Pampering is included here! :o) They don't call me Priss for nuttin'. Haha

32 more things to do on my to do list online. haha Some of those things involve the day of the wedding so those things won't get scratched off any time soon.

Well, the single digit countdown begins today. Wish us luck as we are in full force to get things completed before the 20th!

Tribute

I just wanted to share a video that my great friend and colleague, Diane, put together along with the 1st grade team for me. Everytime I watch it, I cry and cry. It's so sweet. And believe it or not, I DID teach these kids spelling. haha I'm not sure what was going on with their writing but you can definitely see how I taught them to stretch sounds out! haha I'm not sure if most of you know just how much I love teaching and the school that I was at. I truly loved the people I worked with and the kids there so leaving last week was very hard and emotional for me. Briggs holds so many wonderful memories. In fact, it's where Brendan proposed to me. It was my first true expierence as a teacher and I think I was spoiled because I don't think I'll ever find a finer school with such fine fine people as Briggs.

I just wanted to share their video so everyone could see my babies! OK scratch that, the video wont play so I'll show the images!