of work, kids, and school. Jace is so wonderful and he never pushed, he knew that I had my hands full and waited patiently for us to spend time together.
Over the last three years, I have managed to finish college with two degrees and now have a good job at a local manufacturing facility. I get to spend more time with the kids than I used to and the steady income allows us to have a few of the better things in life. The kids are really growing fast and there are times that I wonder if it was good for me to go back to school when they were so young. It took me forever to finally get my divorce finalized with Greg and, as of today, he is behind on child support and very rarely visits the kids. Maybe they are better off, seeing as from what I can tell, his drug use has gotten really bad.
Regardless of the bad taste my first marriage left, today is my wedding day. Jace has shown me that I really deserve to love again and he has filled the huge gap in the kids lives that was left by Greg. Today I get to start over….a new life; or at least, a better one, hopefully.
Our wedding day goes off pretty well, only a few snafus here and there. Things like “you shouldn’t have washed your hair this morning because it will not hold the curl” and rushing to check us in at the airport hotel early so we are not dragging honeymoon suitcases all over the venue. I figured I would be a spazzed out freak after the incident with my sister when I found out two weeks ago that she still hadn’t gotten her bridesmaids dress. I’m not though, I am actually in a sort of tranquil state.
I wonder if mom has been slipping Valium into my drink today.
The wedding is a nice quaint one with about fifty or so guests; mostly family and an few friends on both sides. I am not that girly girl that has to have a lavish wedding with an overwhelming number of guests. I would have been happy if we had just gone to Vegas. Of course, if we did that our families would probably disown us. At least I was able to keep it moderately simple. We had our wedding and reception in the banquet room of a local restaurant that is owned by long time friends of mine.
The wedding reception was pretty awesome after we were finished with all of the pictures that everyone wanted to take. The restaurant we were utilizing had a full bar and dance floor so over time the reception blended into the normal Friday night club crowd. This helped us our immensely seeing that what alcohol we didn’t provide for our guests was available for purchase at the bar.
I manage to get through our first dance together in my dress before I stripped it off me in the parking lot and changing into some clothes better suited for drinking and dancing. Most newlywed couples stick around receptions for only a few hours, however, since the bar was actually open until two a.m. our guests had a ball; drinking and dancing until our hearts content. I think Jace and I finally worked our way out of the bar around one.
Of course, getting to the hotel was going to be a mission in and of itself. Thank goodness I had gone earlier in the day to check us in or we would be standing in the lobby in the middle of the night trying to get our act together to get a room. That would have been nearly impossible seeing as I am having a time getting Jace into the car now. He has apparently had way too much to drink and is standing in the parking lot crying his eyes out about what his mom is going to do without him. Um, hello, she is married and she is an adult, I think she will be able to handle it.
When we finally make it to the hotel, the fun really starts. It is two in the morning and my drunken ass newly wed husband is stumbling up and down the hall beating on various doors telling people to wake up and celebrate our marriage with us.
“Jace, come on and leave them alone. We have to be at the airport in four hours to check in and I would like to get a little sleep.”
“Damn, I guess since nobody will come out and
Over the last three years, I have managed to finish college with two degrees and now have a good job at a local manufacturing facility. I get to spend more time with the kids than I used to and the steady income allows us to have a few of the better things in life. The kids are really growing fast and there are times that I wonder if it was good for me to go back to school when they were so young. It took me forever to finally get my divorce finalized with Greg and, as of today, he is behind on child support and very rarely visits the kids. Maybe they are better off, seeing as from what I can tell, his drug use has gotten really bad.
Regardless of the bad taste my first marriage left, today is my wedding day. Jace has shown me that I really deserve to love again and he has filled the huge gap in the kids lives that was left by Greg. Today I get to start over….a new life; or at least, a better one, hopefully.
Our wedding day goes off pretty well, only a few snafus here and there. Things like “you shouldn’t have washed your hair this morning because it will not hold the curl” and rushing to check us in at the airport hotel early so we are not dragging honeymoon suitcases all over the venue. I figured I would be a spazzed out freak after the incident with my sister when I found out two weeks ago that she still hadn’t gotten her bridesmaids dress. I’m not though, I am actually in a sort of tranquil state.
I wonder if mom has been slipping Valium into my drink today.
The wedding is a nice quaint one with about fifty or so guests; mostly family and an few friends on both sides. I am not that girly girl that has to have a lavish wedding with an overwhelming number of guests. I would have been happy if we had just gone to Vegas. Of course, if we did that our families would probably disown us. At least I was able to keep it moderately simple. We had our wedding and reception in the banquet room of a local restaurant that is owned by long time friends of mine.
The wedding reception was pretty awesome after we were finished with all of the pictures that everyone wanted to take. The restaurant we were utilizing had a full bar and dance floor so over time the reception blended into the normal Friday night club crowd. This helped us our immensely seeing that what alcohol we didn’t provide for our guests was available for purchase at the bar.
I manage to get through our first dance together in my dress before I stripped it off me in the parking lot and changing into some clothes better suited for drinking and dancing. Most newlywed couples stick around receptions for only a few hours, however, since the bar was actually open until two a.m. our guests had a ball; drinking and dancing until our hearts content. I think Jace and I finally worked our way out of the bar around one.
Of course, getting to the hotel was going to be a mission in and of itself. Thank goodness I had gone earlier in the day to check us in or we would be standing in the lobby in the middle of the night trying to get our act together to get a room. That would have been nearly impossible seeing as I am having a time getting Jace into the car now. He has apparently had way too much to drink and is standing in the parking lot crying his eyes out about what his mom is going to do without him. Um, hello, she is married and she is an adult, I think she will be able to handle it.
When we finally make it to the hotel, the fun really starts. It is two in the morning and my drunken ass newly wed husband is stumbling up and down the hall beating on various doors telling people to wake up and celebrate our marriage with us.
“Jace, come on and leave them alone. We have to be at the airport in four hours to check in and I would like to get a little sleep.”
“Damn, I guess since nobody will come out and
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