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I am back again at Willowbank and about a week and a half in...and I am writing essentially this blog for them. So all things school-y you can check out there: blog.willowbank.ca I've done a couple of posts already and will be doing one a week for the remainder of the school year.
This is not the funniest part...as part of this role I am also updating the Willowbank Facebook and Twitter accounts. This totally cracks me up, as I rarely check my own Facebook and swore I'd never use Twitter...but somehow as the unofficial and slightly anonymous persona of Willowbank I'm totally all over it! I've even figured out (with some serious coaching) what a hashtag is, you know, this: #. Y'all thought it was a number symbol...well its also got a secret twitter existence...just like me.
With all that being said, I'm thinking that this blog will more be about the things I've blogged about during the summer or, if you will, domestic bliss. Since the garden is just about done (though we are still cranking out huge amounts of greens! Woot, if you love collards!) I'll probably be posting up some recipes -- just made Red and Jalapeno Jelly for Christmas presents. If you're lucky you'll taste the magic come December. But more likely I'll be posting about some of the DIY we'll be doing for our Wedding. That's right folks, you heard it first here (actually if you are reading this, you are probably my family and already knew this), Tim and I are going to host our big shindig next July!
Most people cannot fathom why after 5 years of engagement and 7(or 8 - it's hard to recall) years of living together we would even need to get married. But it is an important step for us, and really we've just been waiting until we could afford to throw a big party and have everyone we want at the wedding (and (who am I kidding) get everyone drunk!).
Since waiting on doing anything until we could afford to do it is not really getting us anywhere, we decided we may as well just do it now! With lots, and I mean lots, of help from our families and friends we are planning a super fun, super low-key wedding that has all the things we value in it: a meaningful expression of our love before God (get ready for a full mass dudes), followed by a wicked night that will be our first offering of hospitality as a married couple, to our friends and family (this equates to a home made buffet for 260 guests in a barn - but its a pretty barn with lots of room for dancing!)
So get ready for a big party and maybe check in here over the next few months to see where we are at with the planning and DIY!
