So it’s been an amazing past two months. The wedding was phenomenal and everything we wanted. I couldn’t have asked for a better honeymoon. After that we got our puppy, Addy, and since we’ve just been adjusting to married life and making the most out of our little family.
Yesterday Drew and I went skating with the children at our church and as we were skating I was reminiscing. I never thought that this would be the course my life would take. I was far from feeling disappointed, instead I was overwhelmed at how blessed I am. I have a husband who loves me for who I am, he’s more than I ever could have asked for in a spouse. It’s amazing to see him with Addy, he has a great paternal side, so I know one day he’ll make an amazing father.
My friends are amazingly supportive of me, and I love them all dearly. I don’t know where I’d be without their love and support. I couldn’t imagine going through some of the things I’ve gone through without them. I hope I can learn from their example and one day be as good of a friend as they are.
Life is ever changing and I’m ready for whatever experiences come my way. Just thought I needed to acknowledge how blessed I truly am, and update everyone (sort of) on everything that’s happened in the past two months!!
well as you all know, the wedding is less than 48 hours away, that’s just crazy!!! I’m so blessed to have such a wonderful man in my life.We are both very excited, it’s just such a crazy time. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we begin this new life together. We’ll post more as soon as we get back from Antigua!!
Wow! I don’t say that enough, but that sums up my life lately. We are now officially homeowners!!! It’s really exciting, and just a fun time in general. I love watching Drew make the transformation, painting, caring about house stuff, actually doing manual labor 
It’s amazing!!!
The wedding is right around the corner, and I’m so excited, in a little over 76 days I will be Mrs. Drew Conner!!
In about five weeks, I’ll be packing things up and moving back home with my parents (and of course Chelsea 
). Also, I will be leaving my beloved job at the Department of Inclusive Education, I hate to leave, but I’m only taking classes on Tuesday and Thursday this Fall.
My whole life is changing, and it’s all for the better. In just a couple weeks I’ll have a husband, and we’ll begin our amazing life together!!! I’m so blessed!
God Bless,
Mandy
Lately things have been crazy, between school, work, house stuff, and lastly wedding I’ve barely managed to fit it all in. Today when I was checking in on the wedding planning I was surprised to find that it is exactly 100 days until the big day. When I first got engaged, I thought this was going to be the most hectic time of it all, but that’s not the case at all. Honestly, everything has fallen into place. The wedding is almost completely planned, the house paperwork is moving right along, family life couldn’t be better, school is going off without a hitch, and work is amazing (I’m actually getting sad that I’ll be leaving this summer). It’s a very exciting time, and I honestly could not be happier! I can’t believe I thought this would be stressful, lol. So let the countdown begin, 100, I’m sure amazing days to go until the big day!
This morning while getting ready for work, I stumbled upon an old Maxwell Coffee ad in a magazine. It simply said “Finally a world without bitterness” and a picture of their product. While I love my coffee, the words really stuck with me and had me thinking all morning.
How amazing would our world be like without bitterness, without jealousy, without spite?
Think about it, if everyone cared about making this world a better place and loving those around them, everything would be so much different. We all know that we are not here for a very long time but we do leave an impact on this world, whether good , or bad. I don’t know about you, but I do not want to be remembered as a bitter, jealous, or spiteful person. I want to make the world a better place because I was here, and I can do that by channeling all of the negative things and seeing the good in them (there is always good in everything, it just may take a while to see it).
I challenge everyone to do the same. You can make a drastic difference not only in your own life, but in the lives of those around you. After all who wouldn’t want a world without bitterness?
Everyone has those days where it seems like absolutely everything is working against them, and mine has definitely been today. It snowed last night, but school wasn’t canceled. Had to get gas (or push my car) and the machine was broken and I had to go inside, and talk to the attendant who said that their computer system was down and that I could only buy gas with cash, which luckily I had because I doubt I could have driven much more on fumes. I got rear ended at a stoplight almost immediately after the gas incident and while luckily there was no damage to my car, it did do some serious damage to nerves. Then when I thought things couldn’t get any worse I found the one piece of ice on the entire KSU campus and fall flat on my face in front of about forty people. By all accounts that should have been the end of it but no the madness continued. I locked myself out of my office and managed to put a packet of salt in my tea instead of sugar. It’s been a crazy, horrible, no good very bad day.
After the tea incident (which was thankfully the end of the chaos, I hope) . I realized that while I may be having one of the most awful days I’ve ever had, when I look on the bright side I realize how VERY blessed I am. I am in love with an amazing man, who in 148 days will be my husband I have been talking more to my wonderful little sister lately and I am so blessed by our friendship, I’m quite impressed with the young woman she has become. I have amazing friends who I can tell anything to, whether it be good or bad, and who support me and care about me more than I thought any friends could. I may have had a bad 24 hours, but I live a truly amazing wonderful life and I would gladly go through another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day any time to have such wonderful people in my life.
So today is a very special day, exactly twenty-four years ago, God sent the most perfect guy for me into the world. It is Drew’s birthday and I think it’s possible that I’m more excited than he is.
I’ve been thinking today of how much my life has changed since we’ve been together. I had no idea that such an amazing person existed. He brings out the best in me. He completes me. I am so thankful that exactly twenty four years ago, my Prince Charming was born!!!!
Last week was simply not a good week for me, I’m still not quite sure why it was so bad, but it never the less was. By Wednesday I was in a constant terrible mood, and poor Drew didn’t know what to do to help me get out of it. After two days of being in a bad mood, I decided to bake. Everyone has their thing that helps them to relax, mine is baking (yes I know I’m weird.) Anyway during my marathon baking I realized I was out of sugar and called Drew to ask him to pick some up for me. To my suprise when he brought the sugar he also suprised me with some flowers!!
I know it may sound silly but they really helped me to shake off my bad mood. They showed me that he wanted to help make my bad day a good day.
My ‘cold feet’ about the wedding is going away, I don’t expect it to always be “perfect”, I know that we will go through some rocky times, but I am slowly coming to the conclusion that no matter what troubles we face we will get through it together, and grow even more closer together.
I am a very lucky person, I thank God for all He has done for me, He has blessed me exponentially more than I deserve. I am so lucky and thankful that He put Drew into my life. I am so happy to have him as my fiance.
well, it’s been over half a year since my last post. seems to be the trend. however, i have been very busy lately. so much has changed in my life over the past few weeks. i’m quickly approaching the final days of my student career as graduation is less than a month away. i’ve already accepted an engineering position at echostar. for those not in the know, that is the parent company of dish network. it feels good to be employed.
and finally, and most importantly, mandy and i have made it official. they say seven is the perfect number, so i guess that would make 7/7/07 the perfect day. i’m not sure how yours was, but it was indeed the perfect day for me. the day started with a picnic to piedmont park. even though the weather was threatening, we were able to finish our picnic and then journey over to atlanta botanical gardens. after visiting practically all they had to offer, we found ourselves in a nice secluded spot in the middle of the woodland shade garden. it was there, surrounded by beauty, that i slid the ring onto her finger (on one knee, of course). it really was the perfect day.
So this summer has been hectic; school, work, Drew, friends, family, and everything else you can possibly imagine has added stress in some way shape or form to my life. But I’m not complaining, it’s been AMAZING!!!!!!! First of all, I am very excited for Amro and Heather, with their new beautiful house and exceptionally cute kitten, Madison. My mom’s parents are celebrating 50 years of marriage this Friday. Drew has a job waiting for him when he graduates in just a little over a month. My sister is beginning her last year of high school (she’s growing up so fast!)! Everybody I know has something to be so very proud about, and I can’t help but share in their happiness.
I have realized over the past couple weeks how truly blessed I am. Drew is an amazing person. I feel truly blessed to be in a relationship with someone who I admire on so many different levels. He is a very slow to anger person, yet he is always there to support me when I need him. He is everything I wish I could be. I get stressed and worried very easily, he does not. Instead, he helps me to just focus on giving it all to God, because there is no possible way I can handle it myself. I am so thankful to have him in my life.
I have the best friends. I can’t even count the number of times Heather has helped me by giving me advice from a different point of view, and I can talk to her about anything.
My family has also really been very helpful this summer. I find myself calling my mom multiple times a day just to get her opinions on different matters. I am very thankful that we have such a great relationship now. I respect her as my mother, but I also consider a dear, dear friend.
I have a truly amazing life and I am so excited about what God has in store for me this summer!!!