with this ring

Last night we purchased these very special items. We were in the jewellery store, the same place where Brian bought my engagement ring. Standing by the glass counter, shiny cases, sparkly diamonds, smiling saleslady and the older man who told us with a grin on his face and nostalgia in his eyes, "I've been married 30 years now. August is a good month."

And these, the classically simple elegant gold bands to symbolize our love and commitment to each other.

"I give you this ring as a symbol of our covenant in Christ"

And seeing my groom-to-be there trying that gold band on his left finger for size, and knowing that this is it. He is going to be my husband in 77 days. It made my heart go pitter patter a little bit, it really did.

This is the start of our journey, coming so soon. We'll exchange our vows and our rings and we'll go live and love and serve.

I am so thankful... and sometimes I feel like my heart is going to burst with it all.

May days

Spring is slowly creeping across the landscape of St John's.. the trees are tentatively popping out a few buds, the grass is green and mossy due to the large amounts of precipitation here... and today, behold, the sun appears to be out! I might bike somewhere to take advantage of that.

Brian and I have found an apartment, he is currently residing there and I am excited to join him after the wedding. Main floor of half of a big blue heritage house.- its gotwooden floors, big windows- a very old house and its rustic but I love it. It's nice to have that out of the way as house hunting is not, in my opinion, one of the joys of life.

I've been working a ton but looking forward to taking the entire weekend off to enjoy the company of friends and hopefully get outside. It's been a while since I've done a good hike. We were going to go last Sunday but alas, the rain foiled us so we spent it inside playing crib, cleaning the apartment, and eating pancakes. Not a bad trade, really.

Time to make a coffee and sit and read. Oh days off... I need this day. Out of the last 6 days, I've spent some portion of 5 of them at work and I've had enough and need a break. Sometimes that ER can just suck the life out of you if you let it and yesterday when I left I felt like I was just done.... looking forward to the next few days. Mmmm relaxation.... and pondering the events of this summer which are so quickly approaching!