Surreal-ness

11 Aug Surreal-ness

As the wedding is only one week away from today, the weeks leading to this have been filled with surreal moments. Chris and I were sitting in church last Sunday during the sermon when it occurred to me…

I leaned over to him and whispered “do you realize the next time we sit in this church together for a service… I will be your wife?” He got this little smile that told me it had not occurred to him either, but it was an exciting thought for both of us, yet how weird?!

Little things like that are popping up everywhere, and while I imagine married life won’t be all that different. We’ll still have work and frustrations and we’ll still have to talk about money and clean things, we’ll still have date nights (I hope). I imagine it will be new. Like a car wash. You feel really great riding around in your car after a car wash and it’ll wear off eventually, but then …you get another one? (maybe that’s a bad example of a wedding, but you get what I’m saying…)

I had a “trial run” appointment for my hair and it will be fabulous. It was also just fun to get to spend some time with my wonderful sister-in-law, Erin and our wonderful hairdresser! Girl time is great and much needed (excited for some more at my bachelorette tonight). It was a wonderful evening as Shiloh and Avdon spent the night at Gigi and Papa’s (so the boys could have Chris and Erin’s house for the bachelor party). They just make me so happy – so full of energy though and I’m slowly getting overly exhausted and am experiencing a lack of sleep. They are excited to have an uncle, yet a little unsure how that’s going to work out. We were so excited that Erin could meet us in Waterloo yesterday to be our witness for our marriage license. As we were filling out paper work she told chris that the kids knew they were getting an uncle, but they wanted to know if he could still be Chris Roberts. He will indeed still be Chris Roberts (despite the many efforts people have raised to have him change his name and for  there be TWO Chris Tripolinos). In one week I will be adding a name. It’s a big step, Chris agrees. He never thought I’d agree to changing my name (and honestly, neither did I). This was a very recent decision as I will take any option to make my name longer and more complicated (keeps the telemarketers away). In one week I will be Noelle Marie Tripolino Roberts (no hyphen)

I have felt so relaxed since I got home on Thursday night. At this point I feel like everything will just fall into place – mom reminded me that it wouldn’t though and I actually do need to work on things.