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I'll be a home owner soon!

Hey all,

Quick update! I'm so excited and nervous! Last weekend we had a home inspection at our prospective house. Found out that it needs a new roof in the next couple of years. So that was disappointing. We put our offer down 10 grand and told them we were holding firm. They made us wait 2 days before they answered, but they accepted! Hope we can handle this!
Any advice or encouragement (please!) :)

New Recruit

I nominate for as a new recruit for Boston Area Brides. Ms. Jennifer D, soon to be Jennifer F. Cara I totally can't remember how I got myself set up on this thing. could you send the info to jdesjardins99@yahoo.com. Jen was my MOH, and I am hers on May 5th. I will have her write up an intro when she gets set up.

GET TOGETHER!?!

Hi ladies....

Okay, I know we all have ridiculously busy schedules, but let's see if we can't plan a little something. Some ideas... I know I will be coming to the city on the following days:

Saturday, 2/18 (available: Kelli, Andrea)
***SUNDAY, 2/25 (available: Kelli, Andrea, Sarah, Amy, Jennifer)
Saturday, 3/10 (available: Andrea, Sarah)

I'd be free the whole afternoon. Any of those work for anyone?

****It looks like SUNDAY 2/25 is the day! (Sorry about my day mixup originally there). Current places on the table are in the Natick or Wellseley area. Anyone else and any other recommendations?

Welcome Newbies/Lurkers!

We like you, too. :)

Feel free to introduce yourselves!

update

Hey ladies,

Good to "see" everyone again! Cara, thank you for the reminder to check in here! Jen, thank you for asking about my mother in law. Things have quieted down a bit since I last told you how she fell and lost much of her memory. She is now at the Spaulding rehab in town. She has physically improved, shes getting up and able to walk. Mentally, she has good hours and bad hours. She recognizes everyone, but doesn't always respond to you with the "right" answers. Instead of going to visit her everyday for hours, Chris is going one night a week for a couple of hours. I go with him on the weekends. She will be there until Feb 20th and after that she will need 24 hour care for at least 1-2 years or until her mental status improves.
Its really sad to see her now, totally different, she was an independent 67 year old up until December. But we just have to keep our hopes up that she will get better.

Chris and I did not stop looking for a house while all of this was going on. Our apartment only got smaller after our wedding! We just found one around the corner from our place in Dorchester. We are really excited! If all goes well, we'll pass papers on Feb 28th. We plan to stay in our apartment in March so that we can strip the wallpaper from most of the rooms (only 2 of the 8 don't have it!) and paint.

I would love to get together with everyone! Someone have anything in mind?

Unemployed in Smithfield

Hi Ladies.

I'm still here! Sorry for the abscence. I was let go from my job on November 15, and haven't spent much time on the computer. Between Holly's wedding and the Holidays, I didn't have a lot of time to myself at the end of 2006. I've spent what little time I've had working on my house. I've reorganized the kitchen, put in shelves, and cleaned out loads of clutter. Bob loves coming home to lots of full trash bags. My next job is putting in closet organizers in the bedrooms. I've actually avoided sitting around watching Oprah and Dr. Phil.

Bob and I have settled into married life. Having lived together for over a year before we got married, there weren't any surprises to deal with, so it's kind of business as usual. I've started the whole name change process. I just went for my new license yesterday.

Bob's extremely supportive about the lay-off. A little too much at times. He's always telling me to enjoy my time off, and don't rush back to work. It can make it hard some days to get the job search going. I'm not bored yet, and I love having the time to get things done.

Are we still hoping to get together and share photos and stuff? That sounds like a good time to me.

I'm freaking out

Cara and Jennifer,
Thanks for reminding me that there is a light at the end of the tunnel because for the past week, my stress level has been through the roof.
My work is switching programs and they decided to refuse vacation time Febthrough the end of April. I have two more trips planned before the wedding, one in Feb amd the big one in April. I managed to get the one in Feb approved but at this time, they are denying the April one. In April, I have scheduled the food tasting (which only occurs 1st Wed of every month), 2nd dress fitiing, meeting with vendors that my mom arranged, and most importantly, getting the marriage license. THis trip is coordinated with my mother's vacation from the school she works for. This has been planned for months and now they are denying that I can leave because we have to learn a new system. It does not take 3 months to learn a new program, I am sorry but it doesn't. I am so upset that I have a stomach ache. My supervisor would sign off, it's just the higher ups that feel that they can not make an exception for me.
Also, my FI was weak and told two differnt people that they can bring babis to the wedding, when we agreed that they won't. I told him that he has to straighten it out and he feels like we shouldn't allow my young cousins then. My parents are paying for the wedding and I feel like it is appropriate for my close relatives to be there. However, I don not think that means it is okay for everyone to bring their offspring.

Sorry for the vent but I am losing it.

adressing invites

Hi everyone,
It seems that time has sped up and in a little over 4 months, I will be married. I am now having dreams almost nightly about the wedding and the questions have been coming more and more.

My question is, did anyone not use Mr and Mrs on their invites and only put Bob and Lisa Smith. A person told me that they did not like on the save the dates when I addressed them as Mr and Mrs Smith and that it is acceptable to just use first names.