Yay Emily! She still has a ways to go before she is a practicing nurse practitioner but she is now ready to start clinicals, with real patients:)
After the ceremony, we went shopping...I am not really wearing this to the wedding, but if I ever wanted to Effie Trinket it, I would totally buy this.
So I had some criteria for my dress for the wedding...I REALLY wanted to find one at the thrift store, but mostly I wanted it to be cheap or on clearance, ha, gray, and sparkly. And it had to cover my arms, and be modest. I found this today...
I had Kathryn take this picture, and as soon as I saw it, the self-criticism started...my tummy! But then...who really cares? Kathryn didn't like it at all when I started, so I stopped. It's not a good example for teenagers...:)
I am glad I found something though. We also found gifts for my niece's daughter Grace, who is celebrating her 14th birthday this evening, Evelyn, Suzanne, and Sonja went to her party. I found a few gifts also, and then we went to the warehouse store for a big bag of....dog chow.
We had some lunch at Five Guys, they have the best burgers!
Kathryn took the youngest three kids out and about today. They went for pizza with their homeschool certificates.
Tonight, they are bugging about when we are getting the Christmas tree. It was supposed to be today, but the place down the road closed too early, or I got home too late, plus Paul had the truck at work. Tomorrow he is going hunting, then we are going to a Christmas concert. Sunday morning we are leaving early to go to Ottowa (Canada) for the day for a birthday celebration for a friend...so either the older kids get it on Sunday, or we wait until Monday.
Ah well....time to rejoin the family...it's not easy to write when there are kids to talk to...
11 comments:
I think you look great :-) and grey is a very classic colour for mother of the bride :-)
The wedding outfit looks amazing on you. We all self critisize far too much!
You look beautiful in that pretty dress ! 👗ðŸ‘
Simone
Thank you, guys. My ultimate goal was to find a dress in a thrift store, just for the fun of it, I hate spending loads of money on one dress. But this was almost as good, $24.99! It was really fun to find what I was looking for, and Emily was a great help. Thank you for the compliments:) (I did google "mother of the bride dresses", and read that gray was a good color. Margaret's bridesmaid and maid of honor are wearing blush/pink, and her other color is burgundy)(and I wanted a little sparkle!)
Della you look lovely!! What a beautiful outfit..........perfect for the mother of the bride 🤗 We haven't put up the tree either, but will soon. Have fun in Ottowa..........I'm not sure where that is. I've only heard of Ottawa ....... our nation's capital.....but I doubt you are going there! Have a great weekend.
Marilyn I'm Canada
Thank you, Marilyn...and we are going to your nation's capital, we are only 3 hours and twenty minutes away! We are actually going to a small town outside of the capital though.
We got the tree this morning, put it up, it's huge, the nicest tree we ever had. I love it. I caved and put only white lights on it, as per one teenage daughter's request. It's hard for me, I love the blend of all those colored lights, but I'll survive...:)
You look absolutely beautiful Della! I love the dress, it is very elegant.
Congratulations to Emily, what an accomplishment!
I hope you are enjoying our fair country 🇨🇦 Do you cross over in Brockville? I'm not sure of all the border crossings there. I lived in the Windsor Ontario area for 5 years........Michigan was our border state. We are going to put up our tree in the next few days. You are going to have a busy, but fun, week!!
Marilyn from Canada
Love the dress! Looks so nice on you. Perfect mother of the bride dress.... enjoy every moment of it because in the blink of an eye it will be over!
Post of pic of that epic tree! Sounds gorgeous.
Rose
Me gusta el vestido. El color es un color muy adecuado.
Nosotros tampoco hemos puesto el árbol aún. Será esta semana
That dress is perfect for you!!!!
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