Vows

Our wedding vows - because I think it is important to keep them: 

Where you go, I will go,

And where you live, I will live;

Your people shall be my people,

And your god, my god.

Where you die, will I die,

And there will I be buried.

Your hands, are my hands, and my life, your life.

With these promises to you,

I Sunil, take you, Betsy,

to be my wife.

I will cherish our friendship

and love you today, tomorrow and forever.

I will trust you and honor you.

I will love you faithfully

through the best and the worst,

through the difficult and the easy.

What may come I will always be there.

As I have given you my hand to hold,

so I give you my life to keep.

Where you go, I will go,

And where you live, I will live;

Your people shall be my people,

And your god, my god.

Where you die, will I die,

And there will I be buried.

Your hands, are my hands, and my life, your life.

With these promises to you,

I Betsy, take you, Sunil,

to be my husband.

I will cherish our friendship

and love you today, tomorrow and forever.

I will trust you and honor you.

I will love you faithfully

through the best and the worst,

through the difficult and the easy.

What may come I will always be there.

As I have given you my hand to hold,

so I give you my life to keep.

                                                                                                                           

A

Sunil and I just had a great discussion about "Ahme...".  He thinks he's a leader doing great things to bring his country ahead.  I think he's got the potential for greatness....or evil.  My point: once I see that he's doing these things to truly better his people - i.e. build schools, roads, improve life, etc. - then I may change my mind.  20 years....we shall see.

Brave Ellie

This morning, I am sitting at the kitchen desk completing my homework for Org Behavior when I see Ellie run to the back door.  The screen is the only thing closed because Texas mornings are finally bearable. 

Through the screen I hear Ellie emit a deep growl - highly unusual for our face-licking, lap-sitting girl.  I turn to see only her back pressed as close to the screen door as she can get.  The fur along her spine, rigid, at attention.  My first thoughts are that the mean dog next door is giving her hell again.  So, "momma" goes to the door, steps outside and says to Ellie "Show me".  Sure enough, she cautiously pads over to the gate, looks through its bars and then back at me "Look, Mom, there it is."  Then I see it; I see the beast, the terrorizer of Ellie. 

The big gray cat.

What a wimp.

Life

So much has happened since 2010 began. We're engaged (February), I quit teaching and went back to school, we bought a house and moved in (July), Sunil got a major promotion...It feels like a pretty good year.

The whole wedding planning business is a lot of work, but it is the most fun "work" I've done. It's stressful - I've gotten a little overly irritated at dumb things - but a great distraction from the other work stuff I have going on (Principles of Marketing and MicroEconomics). Just about everything has been booked and decided on. So the weight is beginning to lift, and my focus is finally able to shift towards other areas of life a little bit more. :)

Now we just have to fix up the house a little bit: paint the outside (I have to pick that today some time, YIKES!), paint the inside, rework the kitchen, landscaping and some electrical stuff. Hmmmm....can it all be done before the end of September? I think so. But maybe I'm just being optimistic.