There is a Season...

My mom died last night. What do I do?

http://www.legacy.com/dailyherald/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=127304738

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Ecclesiastes 3:1.

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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The boy is finally done with SIUC and is moving up here for the summer tomorrow!! I am so excited on multiple levels. Now I just need to be able to clean my apt before he "squats" here till he moves to Iowa. Eek!

Money Matters

I guess I always knew this but never fully realized it but weddings are freakishly expensive! Everything seems to cost hundreds or thousands of dollars for silly things. And the tricky thing is that a lot of places seem to charge you more just because its a wedding. But that seems so very unfair. Reception sites charge double for a wedding as opposed to say a family reunion. I think that we should just fudge the details and call it a family get-together (which is true). I want to be as cost effective as possible and I think that I just enlisted two of students to play instruments for the ceremony, on the condition that they could attend the reception and I think that I can handle buying them an overpriced dinner so that they could share their talents with us. I am looking to hire student photographers to capture the day on the premise that they hand over their SD cards to us. And I am not picky about having a fancy, expensive, uneatable, tiered fondant cake so I need someone to be willing to bake hundreds of cupcakes and frost them. We'll see what happens. I want to go the cheap route as my family will be paying for a funeral sometime this year (which are way more costly than you would expect). I have already begun to choose my people but Chris is slacking. I just want to get all this over with so that I can relax later on and not be stressed because I'm sure that I will be doing a lot of stuff myself.