Invitations, House Cleaning and New Orleans

...that's pretty much my schedule for the next week and a half.

Yeah, about the invitations. These babies started out as a labor of love. Now it's just labor. I'm at the Regretting-DIYing-stage of DIYing. The point where settling is okay. The point where any amount of money is not worth it. I am failing.

On to the house cleaning. Because I don't have enough to do, I invited all my family to our house the 22nd. We're throwing ourselves a house warming party. This I am excited about. As far as I can remember I will be cooking for my grandma for the very first time. Prepare to be amazed Mami Ana! Problem with this is the amount of dust in this house. There is a layer of dust on the plant shelf that is about 1/4 of an inch thick. I kid you not. There is dust piled all around the water heater. I kid you not. These are the areas that I have been avoiding. My last thing to clean. It's so disgusting that I've been considering hiring a maid service, but I don't want to let my mother down. On top of that I want to finish painting & reupholstering the ''window seat''. I also have to plan the menu.

And the part I'm most excited about.... NEW ORLEANS! Yes I'm taking another weekend trip to New Orleans. My cousin just had twins. Twins! My parents and Boots will be my travel companions to meet them. J will have to work. Of course. He has yet to visit my hometown. But we have been to Chicago 4 times. Hmmm? NOLA is now a short 8 hour drive from our new location. We have planned at least a dozen trips there that have fell through for some ridic reason. He has yet to meet half my family. I am not complaining.

PS::: We have an officiant! He is funny and warm and has a great voice and looks great and is young. He is perfect for us, just perfect! Funny story on the way to meet him we got pulled over. A tag transfer that we did from the old car to the new car didn't go through for some reason. J could've been arrested! But we were let off with a warning and an officiant meeting & hour later everything was all cleared up. The girl at the DMV straight out told us it was a stupid human error. DMV FAIL!