This is Really Real!!!

Sometimes Ryan and I shake our heads and say - is this really our lives?? How did we go from where we were and the hurts we had...to being together...and being 28 days away from being married? How did this happen?

 

Last night we were driving home and Josh Wilson's song Before the Morning came on. Oh goodness - how many HUNDREDS of times did I listen to that song during my desert and cling to it for hope while simultaneously believing it would NEVER be true for me? That the pain I was feeling would surely kill me. Surely.

 

And yet it did not and the song is true - it really was just the dark before the morning.

 

Ryan and I spent much of this past week beginning the (apparently never-ending) process of combining our households. And with each step we took, it felt just a little more real to me!

 

Last weekend, we purchased our first "together" piece of furniture. An entertainment center! Here's something I adore about Ryan: he's a go-getter. We walked in the door with it...and never mind that it was 9:30 at night...he opened the box and set about assembling it. Melt.

 Ummmm....perhaps there were more pieces than he bargained for?

 For those of you wondering...Braeya has transitioned quite nicely to having Ryan around. She loves him ever so much and apparently she also loves to supervise his work.

 2 hours later and...DONE!

 So then just this weekend, Ryan and our friend Adam showed up with a trailer full of "the big stuff." As you saw in the weekly recap...one of the big things was this mattress. I did not think they would get it up the stairs. To turn that corner right there and make it up the narrow staircase is...excruciating. And I think both of them would offer a hearty amen to that. Nevertheless, they did it!

 Ryan estimated the mattress to weigh in excess of 200 pounds. I think they both deserved a frappe for that, don't you?

So it's really real...he's moving in, and every time I walk past something he brought with him...or something we've purchased together...I'm so blessedly reminded that the song is true. It really was just the dark before the morning, and now the morning is HERE!

* Clarification - again - because I had a question about it. NO we are not living together before we are married. We were just moving his stuff in so we could get the house put together before the wedding. He is still living at his house and I am still living at mine. *