Sara and Mom

I'm Kathy. Fifty-five year old Mom, with a 29 year old son and a 26 year old daughter. Two absolutely great kids. (ok...grown-ups!).
My son, Shawn, got married in June of 2011, so I got a taste of what it is like and what is involved with being a parent of 'one-half' of a young, soon to be wed, couple. Being Mother of the Groom, was relatively easy, and in fact I felt somewhat unimportant at times. It's just the way it is. Wedding arrangements are usually the domain of the bride-to-be, and my son's (now) wife had her own Mom, plus two sister's, sister in laws, stepsisters, and tons of girlfriends. Didn't need a whole lot of input from me. Understandable. The wedding was beautiful, unique and lots of fun. More about Shawn and Nicole, and their wonderful wedding in a later post. (Love you guys!)

This post, and most of this blog, will be about the journey toward wedding day for my daughter and I. This is all new to both of us and I expect us to learn a lot together. When I got married it was 1978, and I don't remember worrying much about who was putting it all together. In fact I hardly remember making many of the plans at all. I was 21. Carefree, naive and totally unaware of all the work, planning and coordinating that my mother was doing on my behalf. Not to mention who paid for it all? I don't have a clue. I remember dress shopping, going over the invite list, and picking out invitations and cake. I don't recall a lot of other details. I don't think I paid for much and I don't remember spending much time coordinating anything. What an idiot! (Thank you Mama)

So, here I am, 34 years later, about to take on the Mother of the Bride role and all that goes with it. Sara is definitely NOT the naive, unconcerned, selfish, dolt that I'm pretty sure I was back when it was my turn. She is a beautiful, smart, unselfish, accomplished, caring, intuitive, hard-working, creative and confident young woman, with a great sense of humor. I expect us to have a lot of laughs along the way. And I expect there will be plenty of tears as well.

Oh yes..and the groom...Stan. Stan is a great guy. I've always thought he looks a little like my son, and since my son and my daughter look alike - that means that Sara and Stan look a 'little' bit alike. (They are going to make beautiful babies!)  OK ..getting way ahead of myself. I love Stan. He proposed just a few weeks ago, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They have been a couple nearly 5 years, so I knew this would be coming soon, not a huge surprise. But now it's official - they are engaged. Facebook status updates and the whole deal.

About a week after they got engaged it hit me....I have a whole other job now besides my regular day job. We've got lots to do. So I'm hoping to keep posting regularly from now through wedding day, which at this time is tentatively planned for sometime in summer of 2014.

I'll get this blog together with more info., and photos etc. For now - just wanted to get started.
Oh - and did I mention that Stan grew up on the island of North Haven in Penobscot Bay. They would like to have the wedding on the island - which is already presenting all kinds of challenges to overcome. Two words...'Ferry Schedule'.
Here we go!