One more Holiday

So today in the office I undertook the very important task of looking up and marking down all of the days in 2012 that the office is closed. (Well what else is one going to do when the office is a ghost town?) As I was happily shading in my calendar I realized something. Something big.

There is only one work holiday left that I will spend as a Miss. And it's three days from now on January second.

HOLYCOWOHMYGOODNESS!

To be fair, there is a pretty big holiday drought between New Year and Memorial day, (not sure why they can't give us Valentine's day or St. Patrick's day or Mardi Gras off....) but we are still approaching wedded bliss at a speed that makes *this post  look like we had all the time in the world!

Despite the growing list of To-Dos and crafts that seems to have a life of it's own in my Google Docs, it is some how reassuring to know that the next three day weekend will be spent as Mr. and Mrs. We may have a BBQ on the forth of July and I can tell people how great my husband is at smoking ribs. If we go to the in-laws for Thanksgiving they will actually be in-laws and I won't have to say, "Oh we're going to Mr. Aardvark's parents' place."  (Note: I refer to them as my in-laws from time to time but feel a little weird about using the title prematurely.) And at Christmas, knowing my grandma, we will get ornaments that say Mr. and Mrs. Aardvark (actually, literally Aardvark because she reads this blog and loves giving ornaments...we may get some that say Ourlastname too but there is a good chance of both).

This all makes me very happy. And it reminds me that their is life beyond the wedding. Remembering that should help keep my head squarely on my shoulders as we get into the really crazy home stretch.

Can you see the light at the end of the wedding planning tunnel? How do you stay focused in the madness?

*As a side note, if you are counting down to my wedding (and who isn't?) here's where we are on that list:

• Starting this week: Bridesmaid weekend (more on this to come—I am SO stoked. SO so stoked to see all my ladies!)
• The following weekend: Mission Find a Suit for Mr. Aardvark…Also, Mr. Aardvark’s and my three year date-iversary.
• Then, our Pre-Cana class the next weekend, as well as a little thing I like to call MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER, AKA HALLOWEEN.

• The weekend after that we are going to Michigan to eat cake and other wedding food, and watch mama Aardvark do a mountain bike race (yeah, she is pretty bad ass (can I say ass on this website? oops! I just did. Twice.).
• Only two weeks after that is Thanksgiving
• By then it is nearly December and the second week of December Mr. Aardvark and I are taking the first real vacation we’ve had since I was in college.
• By the time we come back we’ll be this close to Christmas. THIS CLOSE! (BTW, what are our plans for Christmas??? I have no idea yet! Ahhhh!)
• New Year’s
• Then it’s January and that’s when things “get real.” I have “send Invites” written in my planner that month.  (Thinking about it now, that may be a bit premature, but I will have to reevaluate that.)
• February comes screeching in with its shortened time frame (29 days this year) and has Valentine’s Day, and Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Since our wedding is right after Easter, I view Lent as the final countdown to the big show.
• March will be packed with all kinds of last-minute wedding madness, and then…

BOOM: APRIL